Context-dependent violations of rational choice in honeybees (Apis mellifera) and gray jays (Perisoreus canadensis)

By Sharoni Shafir, Thomas A. Waite, B. Smith. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science

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Animal visual illusion and confusion: the importance of a perceptual perspective (2014, result): “2012), honey bees (Apis mellifera; Shafir et al. 2002), and slime molds (Latty and Beekman 2011) and can be utilized to manipulate perception of size and other physical attributes in a manner similar to the Ebbinghaus illusion.”
Mate choice rules in animals (2006, background): “Starting with work on honeybees (Shafir 1994), foraging studies have repeatedly demonstrated context-dependent choice behaviour that depends on the range of alternatives present (Hurly & Oseen 1999; Waite 2001; Bateson 2002a, b, 2004; Bateson et al. 2002; Shafir et al. 2002).”
Alief in Action (and Reaction) (2008, background): “…are, … like humans, … infl uenced by the addition of an option to a rational choice set … Their relative preference between two original options change[s] with the introduction of a third … option ’ that is dominated by one but not the other of the original choices ( Shafi r et al. 2002 , p. 180.)”
Emergence of group rationality from irrational individuals (2011, background): “Despite these predictions, violations of IIA and other rationality principles have been observed repeatedly in humans and other animals (Tversky 1969; Huber et al. 1982; Wedell 1991; Shafir et al. 2002; Bateson et al. 2003).”
Female preference for male phenotypic traits in a fiddler crab: do females use absolute or comparative evaluation? (2009, background): “Evidence for comparative evaluation in decision making has been well documented in animal foraging behaviour (e.g. Waite 2001; Shafir et al. 2002).”
NEUROBIOLOGY OF ECONOMIC CHOICE: A GOOD-BASED MODEL (2011, background): “Although transitivity violations can sometimes be observed (Shafir 2002, Tversky 1969), in most circumstances human and animal choices indeed satisfy transitivity.”
Random Choice and Learning (2019, background): “…compromise effect have been found among rhesus macaques (Parrish, Evans, and Beran 2015), túngara frogs (Lea and Ryan 2015), honeybees, gray jays (Shafir, Waite, and Smith 2002), hummingbirds (Bateson, Healy, and Hurly 2002), and a unicellular slime mold (Latty and Beekman 2011). the sound of…”
Flower Choice and Learning in Foraging Bumblebees: Effects of Variation in Nectar Volume and Concentration (2006, background): “Alternatively, a bee’s choice could be affected by its subjective perception of the reward, which is not formulated into the function (see Waddington & Gottlieb 1990; Bate- son et al. 2002, 2003; Shafir et al. 2002; and further discussion below).”
Exposing the behavioral gambit: the evolution of learning and decision rules (2013, background): “For example, in honeybees (Apis mellifera; Shafir et al. 2002), grey jays (Perisoreus canadensis; Shafir et al.”
Value-based gain control: divisive normalization in parietal cortex (2011, background): “…additive noise or correlated activity) could decrease the discriminability between the options as the distributions are normalized, leading to stochastic choice behavior that is dependent on the composition of the choice set (Tversky and Simonson, 1993; Shafir et al., 2002; Bateson et al., 2003).”
Swarm cognition in honey bees (2007, background): “Honey bees and gray jays have been shown to exhibit context-dependent decision making (Shafir et al. 2002).”
Context-dependent foraging choices in risk-sensitive starlings (2002, unknown): “Similarly, Shafir et al. (2002) reported violations of regularity in grey jays, Perisoreus canadensis, choosing between foraging options differing in the distance to food (length of a tube) and the number of raisins.”