Monkeys can play Monday morning quarterback, too

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 12:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Regret has long been viewed as an exclusively human thought, one which helps prevent us from repeating bad choices but becomes debilitating when it triggers obsessive thoughts about past actions. Now a new study shows that monkeys also can be Monday morning quarterbacks and visualize alternative, hypothetical outcomes.

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