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ArticleLearning & behavior2020

Mickey Mouse's negative affect facing mistakes.

Vassilissa Dolivo

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Article in Learning & behavior, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Vassilissa DolivoBehavioural Ecology, Institute for Ecology and Evolution Bern, Bern, Switzerland. vassilissadolivo@hotmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many of the scientists working in the field of 'animal behaviour' and especially of 'animal cognition' consider the most obvious factors for fitness maximization - for instance, nutritional reward maximization - as the sole motivators when a course of action must be chosen. Sweis, Thomas, and Redish (2018, PLOS Biology, 16(6), e2005853) show that even in a food-restricted environment in which it is vital to maximize food gaining, other factors, not obviously linked to fitness, play a role for decision-making - in the present case, avoidance of a negative affect linked to changing one's mind (a factor which does not improve foraging efficiency), and individual flavour preference (a factor which even impairs foraging efficiency).

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EmotionsLearningAffectAnimalsCognitionRewardFitnessInterindividual variabilityLearningPondering strategyRegret avoidanceRodents

Identifiers

PMID30937685

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