Rational Decision Making In Primates: The Bounded And The Ecological

Primate Neuroethology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Steven, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavior in primates; Bounded rationality; Decision making; Ecological rationality; Rational utility maximization

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EID: 84920652793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326598.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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