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How costs affect preferences: experiments on state dependence, hedonic state and within-trial contrast in starlings
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We examined how starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, adjust preferences to retrospective sunk costs in either time or work. Ideal decision-makers disregard sunk costs, but under some circumstances animals, like humans, prefer normally costlier rewards when they do not have to pay the costs. We argue that a possible explanation is state-dependent valuation learning (SDVL). The argument is that subjective value (hedonic state or fitness) is a decelerated function of energetic state, and energetic costs...
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- 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.02.015
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- Journal:
- ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
- Volume:
- 81
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 1117-1128
- Publication date:
- 2011-06-01
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- ISSN:
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0003-3472
- Source identifiers:
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210709
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- English
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pubs:210709
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