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Melioration as Rational Choice: Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Environments.

Melioration--defined as choosing a lesser, local gain over a greater longer term gain--is a behavioral tendency that people and pigeons share. As such, the empirical occurrence of meliorating behavior has frequently been interpreted as evidence that the mechanisms of human choice violate the norms o...

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Published in:Psychological Review Vol. 120; no. 1; pp. 139 - 155
Main Authors: Sims, Chris R., Jacobs, Robert A., Neth, Hansjörg, Gray, Wayne D.
Format: Article
Published: American Psychological Association Jan2013
Subjects:
Human behavior
Choice (Psychology)
Decision making
Economics
Reason
Psychology of learning
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