ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021
Variation in primate decision-making under uncertainty and the roots of human economic behaviour.
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- Predictions about reward outcomes in rhesus monkeys.Behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Dorsal raphe neurons signal integrated value during multi-attribute decision-making.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Distinct developmental trajectories for risky and impulsive decision-making in chimpanzees.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2023Article
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- The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees.Developmental science · 2022Article
- Behavior of Rats in a Self-Paced Risky Decision-Making Task Based on Definite Probability.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Rationality and cognitive bias in captive gorillas' and orang-utans' economic decision-making.PloS one · 2022Article
- Prefrontal Dopaminergic Regulation of Cue-Guided Risky Decision-Making Performance in Rats.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Uncertainty is a ubiquitous component of human economic behaviour, yet people can vary in their preferences for risk across populations, individuals and different points in time. As uncertainty also characterizes many aspects of animal decision-making, comparative research can help evaluate different potential mechanisms that generate this variation, including the role of biological differences or maturational change versus cultural learning, as well as identify human-unique components of economic decision-making. Here, we examine decision-making under risk across non-human primates, our closest relatives. We first review theoretical approaches and current methods for understanding decision-making in animals. We then assess the current evidence for variation in animal preferences between species and populations, between individuals based on personality, sex and age, and finally, between different contexts and individual states. We then use these primate data to evaluate the processes that can shape human decision-making strategies and identify the primate foundations of human economic behaviour. This article is part of the theme issue 'Existence and prevalence of economic behaviours among non-human primates'.
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