Rational Choice Behavior: Definitions and Evidence

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 13-19

  Bateson, M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice; Cognition; Decision making; Economics; Foraging; Irrationality; Optimal foraging theory; Rationality; Regularity; Transitivity; Utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051541171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045337-8.00222-9     Document Type: Chapter

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