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SUBMITTER: Farashahi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6856432 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Farashahi Shiva S Donahue Christopher H CH Hayden Benjamin Y BY Lee Daeyeol D Soltani Alireza A
Nature human behaviour 20190909 11
A fundamental but rarely contested assumption in economics and neuroeconomics is that decision-makers compute subjective values of risky options by multiplying functions of reward probability and magnitude. By contrast, an additive strategy for valuation allows flexible combination of reward information required in uncertain or changing environments. We hypothesized that the level of uncertainty in the reward environment should determine the strategy used for valuation and choice. To test this h ...[more]