How Monkeys Mirror Human Irrationality

Think you are smarter than a monkey? Yale Psychology Professor Laurie Santos begs to differ. She has been studying human irrationally by comparing it to decision-making in our primitive relatives.

She found that by teaching monkeys to use currency in their Monkey Marketplace, she noticed “monkeynomics” to be strikingly similar to our economics.

That’s bananas!

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