A monkey economy as irrational as ours

Name: A monkey economy as irrational as ours
Uploaded: 2010-07-29T08:47:00Z
Duration: 19 min 28 s
Description: 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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TEDGlobal 2010

• July 2010

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.