Browsing Law School by Author "Brosnan, Sarah F."

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    • Endowment Effects in Chimpanzees 
      Jones, Owen D.; Brosnan, Sarah F.; Lambeth, Susan P.; Mareno, Mary Catherine; Richardson, Amanda S.; Schapiro, Steven (Current Biology, 2007)
      Human behavior is not always consistent with standard rational choice predictions. The much-investigated variety of apparent deviations from rational choice predictions provides a promising arena for the merger of economics ...
    • The Evolution and the Expression of Biases 
      Jones, Owen D.; Brosnan, Sarah F.; Gardner, Molly; Lambeth, Susan P.; Schapiro, Steven J. (Evolution and Human Behavior, 2012)
      The endowment effect is the seemingly irrationally tendency to immediately value a possessed item more than the opportunity to acquire the identical item when one does not already possess it. The phenomenon has broad legal ...
    • Law, Biology, and Property: A New Theory of the Endowment Effect 
      Jones, Owen D.; Brosnan, Sarah F. (William & Mary Law Review, 2008)
      Recent work at the intersection of law and behavioral biology has suggested numerous contexts in which legal thinking could benefit by integrating knowledge from behavioral biology. In one of those contexts, behavioral ...