Humans Often Appear Irrational When You Look at Results of Decision-Making

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Multiple Choice

Humans often appear irrational when you look at results of decision-making research.What explanation for this tendency is given by evolutionary theorists

• A) Problems in the laboratory are different from the problems we evolved to solve. 
• B) Lab studies use heuristics and algorithms rather than deductive reasoning. 
• C) Most research compares humans to other animals, and other animals are more instinctive in their decision-making processes. 
• D) Most decision-making research involves numerical problems, something that our ancestors did not face.

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