Testing the Boundaries of "Paradoxical" Predictions: Pigeons Do Disregard Bad News

Several studies have shown that, when offered a choice between an option followed by stimuli indicating whether or not reward is forthcoming and an option followed by noninformative stimuli, animals strongly prefer the former even when the latter is more profitable. Though this paradoxical preferenc...

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Main Author: Fortes, Maria Inês Abreu (author)
Other Authors: Vasconcelos, Marco (author), Machado, Armando (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
Subjects:
suboptimal choice
Optimal foraging
Probability
Delay
Pigeons
Ciências Sociais::Psicologia
Social Sciences
Science & Technology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/52899
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/52899

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http://hdl.handle.net/1822/52899

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