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Monkeys Are More Patient in a Foraging Task than in a Standard Intertemporal Choice Task

Studies of animal impulsivity generally find steep subjective devaluation, or discounting, of delayed rewards – often on the order of a 50% reduction in value in a few seconds. Because such steep discounting is highly disfavored in evolutionary models of time preference, we hypothesize that discount...

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Autores principales: Blanchard, Tommy C., Hayden, Benjamin Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4324901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25671436
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117057