How do primates, humans included, deal with novel problems that arise in interactions with
other group members? Despite much research regarding how animals and humans solve …

One of the goals of studying primate social cognition is to better understand how decision-
making is similar or different across primate species, including humans. Recently …

A young female rhesus macaque steals furtive glances at the male off to her right. He just
arrived to the territory and therefore immediately piques her interest. The alpha male …

Humans exhibit a suite of biases when making economic decisions. We review recent
research on the origins of human decision making by examining whether similar choice …

There is much debate about how humans' decision-making compares with that of other
primates. One way to explore this is to compare species' performance using identical …

Humans and other animals appear to defy many principles of economic 'rationality'when
making decisions. Here, we use an ecological rationality framework to examine patterns of …

Context can have a powerful influence on decision-making strategies in humans. In
particular, people sometimes shift their economic preferences depending on the broader …

Comparative approaches to experimental economics have shed light on the evolution of
social decision‐making across a range of primate species, including humans. Here we …

The origins of evolutionary games are rooted in both economics and animal behaviour, but
economics has, until recently, focused primarily on humans. Although historically, specific …

In the past decade, there has been a surge of interest in using games derived from
experimental economics to test decision-making behaviour across species. In most cases …