Decision-making in animals: rational choices and adaptive strategies

De Petrillo, F. & Rosati, A.G. (2021). Decision-making in animals: rational choices and adaptive strategies. In: Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition (A. Kaufman, J. Call, & J. Kaufman, eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 770-791.

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Humans face a myriad of choices every day, from simple decisions about what to eat for lunch or how much time to spend on leisure versus work, to more complex decisions like selecting between competitive jobs offers or deciding whether or not get married. How do we make these choices? This question has spurred research in decision science across fields including economics, psychology, and biology, and has led to the development of several normative theories and models predicting how decision-makers should act to choose optimally.
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