Choosing fast and simply: Construction of preferences by starlings through parallel option valuation.

ABSTRACT: The integration of normative and descriptive analyses of decision processes in humans struggles with the fact that measuring preferences by different procedures yields different rankings and that humans appear irrationally impulsive (namely, show maladaptive preference for immediacy). Failure of procedure invariance has led to the widespread hypothesis that preferences are constructed "on the spot" by cognitive evaluations performed at choice time, implying that choices should take extra time in order to perform the necessary comparisons. We examine this issue in experiments with starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) and show that integrating normative and descriptive arguments is possible and may help reinterpreting human decision results. Our main findings are that (1) ranking alternatives throug

SUBMITTER: Monteiro T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7480835 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature