When Less Is More: Evolutionary Origins of the Affect Heuristic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kralik, Jerald D ^a   Xu, Eric R ^a   Knight, Emily J ^a   Khan, Sara A ^a   Levine, William J ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PORTION SIZE; PRIMATE; RHESUS MONKEY; STEREOTYPY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOOD PREFERENCES; MACACA MULATTA; MALE;

MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84867036865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046240     Document Type: Article

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