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Article: 'Humans and honeybees share risk-taking mechanism'
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- Jerusalem Post
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- June 12, 2008
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JUDY SIEGEL
Jerusalem Post
06-12-2008
Headline: 'Humans and honeybees share risk-taking mechanism'
Byline: JUDY SIEGEL
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 09
Thursday, June 12, 2008 -- When presented with the chance for a big reward from a risky endeavor, people and honeybees use the same mechanism to decide, according to researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University. Their research on "perceptual accuracy and conflicting effects of certainty on risk-taking behavior" has just been published in the prestigious journal Nature.
The researchers discovered that people are more prepared to gamble on risky action rather when the differences ...
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