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Laurie Santos: Uma economia macaca tão irracional quanto a nossa

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Laurie Santos busca as raízes da irracionalidade humana observando a forma como nossos parentes primatas tomam decisões. Um inteligente conjunto de experimentos em "macaconomia" mostra que algumas das escolhas bobas que fazemos também são feitas por macacos.

Laurie Santos studies primate psychology and monkeynomics -- testing problems in human psychology on primates, who (not so surprisingly) have many of the same predictable irrationalities we do. Full bio »

Translated into Portuguese, Brazilian by Francisco Dubiela
Reviewed by Rafael Eufrasio
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