Cost can increase preference in starlings

By Alex Kacelnik, Barnaby Marsh. 2002

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The relation between social rank, neophobia and individual learning in starlings (2006, unknown): “Bateson & Kacelnik 1995; Templeton & Giraldeau 1995; Templeton 1998; Campbell et al. 1999; Fawcett et al. 2002; Kacelnik & Marsh 2002 ).”
The 'IKEA Effect': When Labor Leads to Love (2012, unknown): “The link exists for non-humans as well, with rats and starlings preferring sources of food which require effort to obtain (Kacelnik & Marsh, 2002; Lawrence & Festinger, 1962).”
The Effort Paradox: Effort Is Both Costly and Valued (2018, background): “Conceptually similar results were found with pigeons [84], starlings [88], and even invertebrates, such as locusts [85].”
Weighing up the Benefits of Work: Behavioral and Neural Analyses of Effort-Related Decision Making (2006, unknown): “Previous studies have demonstrated that animals may attribute a higher value to one of two stimuli associated with identical amounts of food if they had previously had to work hard to obtain the reward associated with that stimulus (Clement, Feltus, Kaiser, & Zentall, 2000; Kacelnik & Marsh, 2002).”
Larger, enriched cages are associated with 'optimistic' response biases in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) (2008, background): “Previous studies have demonstrated both that the amount of work done prior to a choice (Kacelnik and Marsh, 2002) and the delay to reward following a choice (Bateson and Kacelnik, 1995, 1996, 1997) affect starlings' preferences.”