AUTHOR=Catapano Rhia , Buttrick Nicholas , Widness Jane , Goldstein Robin , Santos Laurie R. TITLE=Capuchin monkeys do not show human-like pricing effects JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=5 YEAR=2014 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01330 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01330 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Recent work in judgment and decision-making has shown that a good's price can have irrational effects on people's preferences. People tend to prefer goods that cost more money and assume that such expensive goods will be more effective, even in cases where the price of the good is itself arbitrary. Although much work has documented the existence of these pricing effects, unfortunately little work has addressed where these price effects come from in the first place. Here we use a comparative approach to distinguish between different accounts of this bias and to explore the origins of these effects. Specifically, we test whether brown capuchin monkeys (