Context-dependent violations of rational choice in honeybees (Apis mellifera) and gray jays (Perisoreus canadensis)

Shafir, S., Waite, T., & Smith, B. (2002). Context-dependent violations of rational choice in honeybees (Apis mellifera) and gray jays (Perisoreus canadensis). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 51(2).

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Journal article

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Primary research

Year

2002

Volume

51

Issue

2

DOI

10.1007/s00265-001-0420-8

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-001-0420-8

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behavioral_economics

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• Context-Dependent Preference
  • The behavior is legible without attributing deliberation to the organism.

    This sourceReports that the relative preference between two constant options changed in both an insect and a bird when a third, relatively unattractive option was introduced.

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    Shafir et al. show context-dependent preference reversals in honeybees and gray jays and frame the effect as adaptive rather than rational, but the abstract never states that the behavior is legible without attributing deliberation.

    “These findings contradict the view that nonhuman animals should be immune to such psychological effects and that they should conform with normative accounts, such as rationality or optimal-foraging theory, because their decision-making processes are evolutionarily adaptive.”

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