ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021
Reduced risk-seeking in chimpanzees in a zero-outcome game.
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- Sex and Age Differences in Decision-Making Under Risk by Wild Balinese Long-Tailed Macaques (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- A distinct hypothalamus-habenula circuit governs risk preference.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Contextual influences on risk-taking in children and adults.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Children's risk preferences vary across sexes, social contexts, and cultures.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Observational approaches to chimpanzee behavior in an African sanctuary: Implications for research, welfare, and capacity-building.American journal of primatology · 2023Article
- Rationality and cognitive bias in captive gorillas' and orang-utans' economic decision-making.PloS one · 2022Article
- Economic behaviours among non-human primates.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
A key component of economic decisions is the integration of information about reward outcomes and probabilities in selecting between competing options. In many species, risky choice is influenced by the magnitude of available outcomes, probability of success and the possibility of extreme outcomes. Chimpanzees are generally regarded to be risk-seeking. In this study, we examined two aspects of chimpanzees' risk preferences: first, whether setting the value of the non-preferred outcome of a risky option to zero changes chimpanzees' risk preferences, and second, whether individual risk preferences are stable across two different measures. Across two experiments, we found chimpanzees (
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