BEHAVIOR, REINFORCEMENT AND UTILITY |
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Abstract: | The standard economic assumption about human behavior is that it optimizes overall utility. But in many controlled experiments on behavioral allocation, it has been found that organisms allocate their behavior so as to earn equal average rates of reinforcement from all alternatives. Equalizing average rates of reinforcement is a principle of allocation that generically violates the assumption of optimality. |
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