Cognitive influences on risk-seeking by rhesus macaques

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 389-395

  Hayden, Benjamin Y ^a   Heilbronner, Sarah R ^a   Nair, Amrita C ^a   Platt, Michael L ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased anchoring; Expected utility; Rhesus macaque; Risk; Risk sensitivity; Utility curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350176052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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