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The power of nothing: Risk preference in pigeons, but not people, is driven primarily by avoidance of zero outcomes

2018-12-09

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<p>When making risky decisions, people and pigeons often show similar choice patterns. When people learn the reward probabilities through repeated exposure to the outcomes, their preference is disproportionately influenced by the extreme (highest and lowest) outcomes occurring in the decision context. Overweighting of these extremes increases preference for risky alternatives that lead to the highest outcome and d...

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Literature Corpus work: e8641079-1065-537d-bef3-713189ece204
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/925pj

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