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The evolution of distorted beliefs vs. mistaken choices under asymmetric error costs

Why do people sometimes hold unjustified beliefs and make harmful choices? Three hypotheses include (a) contemporary incentives in which some errors cost more than others, (b) cognitive biases evolved to manage ancestral incentives with variation in error costs and (c) social learning based on choic...

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Autores principales: Efferson, Charles, McKay, Ryan, Fehr, Ernst
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10427456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37588359
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.25