Endowment effect in chimpanzees can be turned on and off
Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 10:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Groundbreaking new research in the field of "evolutionary analysis in law" not only provides additional evidence that chimpanzees share the controversial human psychological trait known as the endowment effect -- which in humans has implications for law -- but also shows the effect can be turned on or off for single objects, depending on their immediate situational usefulness.