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5/31/07

Natural Rationality papers: A round-up

  • Socioeconomic gradients predict individual differences in neurocognitive abilities
  • Young children (before 4 years-olds) do not seem to be able to connect their present decisions to their future selves
  • Altruism is predominantly paternalistic: subjects prefer to give what is good for someone (from the giver's point of view) instead of what someone would like
  • Animal personalities are life-history strategies.
  • Expertise exists everywhere in nature, from honeybees to humans
  • Monkeys have a "a crude capacity for probabilistic inference"



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It is perfectly rational to play a risky game: what is irrational is to deceive oneself about the risk.
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