Optimistic Forager (IMAGE)

S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources, Utah State University

Optimistic Forager

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Foraging animals have better lives when they act as optimists, using a lopsided learning process in which information about bad outcomes is discounted or ignored, according to a new research model.

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Steve Rose

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