The Evolutionary Roots of Human Decision Making

Santos, Laurie R.; Rosati, Alexandra G.

doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-010814-015310

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“…There is some evidence that framing effects may not be unique to humans [6]. For example, capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) prefer to trade a token with an experimenter who offered a smaller amount of food but sometimes augmented it (a gain) versus one who initially offered more but sometimes reduced it (a loss)-despite receiving equal pay-offs regardless [5].…”

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Bonobos and chimpanzees exhibit human-like framing effects

2015

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Humans exhibit framing effects when making choices, appraising decisions involving losses differently from those involving gains. To directly test for the evolutionary origin of this bias, we examined decision-making in humans' closest living relatives: bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). We presented the largest sample of non-humans to date (n ¼ 40) with a simple task requiring minimal experience. Apes made choices between a 'framed' option that provided preferred food, and an alternative option that provided a constant amount of intermediately preferred food. In the gain condition, apes experienced a positive 'gain' event in which the framed option was initially presented as one piece of food but sometimes was augmented to two. In the loss condition, apes experienced a negative 'loss' event in which they initially saw two pieces but sometimes received only one. Both conditions provided equal pay-offs, but apes chose the framed option more often in the positive 'gain' frame. Moreover, male apes were more susceptible to framing than were females. These results suggest that some human economic biases are shared through common descent with other apes and highlight the importance of comparative work in understanding the origins of individual differences in human choice.

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“…This point seems valid, considering the issue also from an evolutionary perspective: nonhuman primates share many of the decision-making processes typical of humans. 40 It is likely that a canonical circuit that can easily be applied to different functions in different areas of the same brain is also an easily transmittable, hence phylogenetically beneficial, model.…”

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Canonical cortical circuits: current evidence and theoretical implications

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Paolucci²,

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Abstract:Neurophysiological and neuroanatomical studies have found that the same basic structural and functional organization of neuronal circuits exists throughout the cortex. This kind of cortical organization, termed canonical circuit, has been functionally demonstrated primarily by studies involving visual striate cortex, and then, the concept has been extended to different cortical areas. In brief, the canonical circuit is composed of superficial pyramidal neurons of layers II/III receiving different inputs and deep pyramidal neurons of layer V that are responsible for cortex output. Superficial and deep pyramidal neurons are reciprocally connected, and inhibitory interneurons participate in modulating the activity of the circuit. The main intuition of this model is that the entire cortical network could be modeled as the repetition of relatively simple modules composed of relatively few types of excitatory and inhibitory, highly interconnected neurons. We will review the origin and the application of the canonical cortical circuit model in the six sections of this paper. The first section (The origins of the concept of canonical circuit: the cat visual cortex) reviews the experiments performed in the cat visual cortex, from the origin of the concept of canonical circuit to the most recent developments in the modelization of cortex. The second (The canonical circuit in neocortex) and third (Toward a canonical circuit in agranular cortex) sections try to extend the concept of canonical circuit to other cortical areas, providing some significant examples of circuit functioning in different cytoarchitectonic contexts. The fourth section (Extending the concept of canonical circuit to economic decisions circuits) reviews the experiments conducted in humans by using transcranial magnetic stimulation to demonstrate the validity of the canonical cortical circuit model. The fifth section (Extending the concept of canonical circuit to economic decisions circuits) explores the hypothesis that also complex human behaviors such as economic decision-making could also be explained in terms of canonical cortical circuit. The final section (Conclusion) provides a critical point of view, evidencing the limits of the available data and tracking directions for future research.

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“…For instance, Santos and Rosati (2015) review literature on the origins of decision-making and conclude that comparative studies of humans and nonhuman primates' decision-making support the notion of evolutionary roots of behavioral biases. Other studies reached the same conclusion by analyzing isolated behavioral phenomena.…”

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Behavioral Finance: History and Foundations

Illiashenko

2017

Visn. Nat. Bank Ukr.

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The Evolutionary Roots of Human Decision Making

Cited by 203 publications

References 197 publications

Bonobos and chimpanzees exhibit human-like framing effects

Bonobos and chimpanzees exhibit human-like framing effects

Canonical cortical circuits: current evidence and theoretical implications

Behavioral Finance: History and Foundations

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