{"id":2886,"date":"2014-08-27T11:13:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2014-08-27T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:36:09","slug":"humans-and-pigeons-gamble-in-similar-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/humans-and-pigeons-gamble-in-similar-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans and pigeons gamble in similar ways<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2888\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase64404d8ee55a60fb9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2888\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2888\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase64404d8ee55a60fb9-300x199.png\" alt=\"Six pigeons were used in a study on how animals and humans can be risk seeking for food rewards. (Photo: Guy Mayer)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase64404d8ee55a60fb9-300x199.png 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase64404d8ee55a60fb9.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Six pigeons were used in a study on how animals and humans can be risk seeking for food rewards. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/10422334@N08\/4565859844\/in\/photolist-ehZXKz-G9sZ-83LPh-Capr-7Xte4s-9mADPN-msMz4e-4csj2r-dfbmp2-8peFJh-6fSNWm-hj5rnp-on9nAR-55ACKi-2GPX6-7tys8Z-6VC6PL-ok6PCg-nPYmDX-4aapR-8YmAC5-85FQuE-2TrZcT-4Wa63L-ewRa1-J28s-9ktuxL-fkM1x-drHrDh-c79Baw-6u8gXf-7RY8R-c8Fz6-Rdzag-e9tgWA-fhevS-4W5QER-2WbVzP-at9jZ-4Wa5U9-6LKLW3-4bg9dH-7oKSeo-bixEFD-7oGmP2-7z6J4f-5YDu6i-7ARZNs-5XWWgD-haeK6V\">Guy Mayer<\/a><a>)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study shows that when it comes to gambling and taking risks, humans and pigeons have more in common than you might think. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The study had pigeons and humans choose between different coloured options to receive a reward.\u00a0Through experience they learned that some colours gave guaranteed rewards, while others gave risky (probabilistic) rewards, i.e. they may not always pay off. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Both humans and pigeons opted for the guaranteed option when the stakes were low, but selected the risky option when the stakes were high.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/10\/8\/20140451.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Biology Letters<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 26, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Elliot Ludvig, University of Warwick, United Kingdom<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marcia Spetch, University of Alberta,\u00a0Alberta<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jeffrey Pisklak, University of Alberta, Alberta<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that when it comes to gambling and taking risks, humans and pigeons have more in common than you might think. The study had pigeons and humans choose between different coloured options to receive a reward.\u00a0Through experience they learned that some colours gave guaranteed rewards, while others gave risky (probabilistic) rewards, i.e. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[180,39,174,114,1647,1508],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-alberta","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-birds","tag-human-behaviour","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase64404d8ee55a60fb9.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Ky","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}