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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Conditional valuation for combinations of goods in primates |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences |
| Publisher | Royal Society Publishing |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 0962-8436 |
| Volume | 376 |
| Number | 1819 |
| Page Range | 20190669 |
| Date | 2021 |
| Abstract Text | Valuing goods and selecting the one with the highest value forms the basis of adaptive behaviour across species. While it is obvious that the valuation of a given type of goods depends on ownership and availability of that type of goods, the effects of other goods on valuation of the original good are sometimes underappreciated. Yet, goods interact with each other, indicating that the valuation of a given good is conditional on the other goods it is combined with, both in the wild and the laboratory. Here, we introduce conditional valuation in the context of valuing multiple goods and briefly review how human and animal experimentalists can leverage economic tools for the study of interactions among goods. We then review evidence for conditional valuation for combined foods in both human and non-human primates. In the laboratory, non-human primates show increased valuation of certain combinations of foods but decreased valuation of other types of combinations. Thus, similarly to humans, monkeys appear to value combinations of goods in a conditional fashion. Additionally, both humans and monkeys appear to employ similar neural substrates for the valuation of single goods, such as the orbitofrontal cortex. Together, investigations of our evolutionary precursors may provide insights on how we value interacting goods. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Existence and prevalence of economic behaviours among non-human primates’. |
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| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1098/rstb.2019.0669 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:20549 |
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| Keywords | General biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, general agricultural and biological sciences |