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Completed in 2020 in , Brazil. Images by Gustavo Uemura, Rafael Medeiros. A few years ago the monkeys that lived at the foot of Serra disappeared. It was told that it was due to yellow fever that supposedly spread among the...
In life expectancy. >> this idea of dashed expectations causes a psychological trauma that's actually well documented. there's this amazing monkey study you show in the documentary. >> yeah, we wanted to approach this from a sociological angle but also a developmental biology angle. this particular experiment, you have two monkeys, capuchin monkeys. they're doing a task and they get a reward, a cucumber, over and over again. eventually, the monkey on the right receives a grape, a more desirable treat. the one on the left recognizes this, gets a cucumber again, sniffs at it and throws it back a...
In leaf expeife expectancy. >> this idea of dashed expectations causes a psychological trauma that's actually well-documented. there's this amazing monkey study you show in the documentary. >> yeah, we wanted to approach this from a sociological angle but also a developmental biology angle. this particular experiment, you have two monkeys, capuchin monkeys, they do a task and get a reward, a cucumber, over and over again. the one on the right receives a grape. the one on the left recognizes this, gets a cucumber again, sniffs at it and throws it back at the examiner. they were perfectly happy ...
I'll keep $9 myself and you'll have $1. if you accept that offer, we both get that split as proposed. if we reject it, we both get nothing. so if you cared only about yourself, then you would say i'll take the $1. but what people actually do is if you're offered less than about 25%, people reject that about half the time. >> the famous experiment with the capuchin monkeys is dramatic illustration of what you say. there are these two monkeys, each asked to give a stone to the person outside the cage and they get a cucumber in return. >> yeah. >> then you switch it and you start giving one of th...