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Gorillas and orangutans may be economically rational but also have pre-existing cognitive biases, according to risk-based decision making experiments

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Gorillas and orangutans may be economically rational but also have pre-existing cognitive biases, according to risk-based decision making experiments

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Gorillas and orangutans may be economically rational but also have pre-existing cognitive biases, according to risk-based decision making experiments.

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278150

Article Title: Rationality and cognitive bias in captive gorillas’ and orang-utans’ economic decision-making

Author Countries: Scotland, Switzerland, Taiwan

Funding: This work was supported with funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant PZ00P3_154741 (CDD), 310030_185324 (KZ), and NCCR Evolving Language (Agreement #51NF40_180888 (KZ)), and the Taipei Medical University (Startup-funding, grant 108-6402-004-112 (CDD)). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

 

Journal

PLOS ONE

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0278150

Article Title

Rationality and cognitive bias in captive gorillas’ and orang-utans’ economic decision-making

Article Publication Date

14-Dec-2022

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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