Preference for oddity: Uniqueness heuristic or hierarchical choice process?

Animal Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 707-713

  Waite, Thomas A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Decision making; Predation risk; Preference; Rationality

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; RECOGNITION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; PASSERIFORMES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT;

CORVIDAE; PERISOREUS; PERISOREUS CANADENSIS;

EID: 51549102993     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-008-0162-3     Document Type: Article

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