The evolution of decision-making under risk: Framing effects in monkey risk preferences

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 689-693

  Lakshminarayanan, Venkat R ^a   Chen, M Keith ^a   Santos, Laurie R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Evolution; Heuristics; Non human primate; Prospect theory; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952816573     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.12.011     Document Type: Article

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