Alberti, Federica; Sugden, Robert; Tsutsui, Kei - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 2, pp. 379-394
We offer an evolutionary model of the emergence of concepts of salience through similarity-based learning. When an individual faces a new decision problem, she chooses an action that she perceives as similar to actions that, when chosen in similar previous problems, led to favourable outcomes....