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A Monkey Economy As Irrational As Our Own

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By Barry Ritholtz - July 30th, 2010, 10:20AM

Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in “monkeynomics” shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.

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Laurie Santos studies primate psychology and monkeynomics — testing problems in human psychology on primates, who (not so surprisingly) have many of the same predictable irrationalities we do. Full bio and more links

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Category: Psychology/Sentiment, Weekend.

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One Response to “A Monkey Economy As Irrational As Our Own”

  1. Monkey Economics | The Big Picture Says:
    July 30th, 2010 at 10:44 am

    [...] Laurie Santos gives a talk at TED that looks at how shockingly similar our biases are to those of monkeys when it comes to hardwired foolishness. [...]

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