Testing the boundaries of “paradoxical” predictions: Pigeons do disregard bad news.

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To test the assumption that bad news signals do not influence pigeons' choices independently of other signal properties.
Conducted two experiments with pigeons choosing between an informative option and a noninformative option.
Experiment 1 manipulated the probability of the bad-news stimulus from 0.80 to 1.00.
Experiment 2 increased the duration of the bad-news stimulus following pigeons' preference for the informative option.
Pigeons preferred the informative option, even when the noninformative option provided significantly more food (9 times in Experiment 1 and 35 times in Experiment 2).
Results align with the model's predictions about choice behavior under uncertainty.

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Tests pigeons' choice behavior, revealing preference for informative signals despite lower food yield.

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Fortes et al. (2016) studied this question.

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