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Monkey "Pay-Per-View" Study Could Aid Understanding Of Autism DURHAM, N.C. -- Researches have found that monkeys will "pay" juice rewards to see images of high-ranking monkeys or female hindquarters. They say their research technique offers a rigorous laboratory approach to studying the "social machinery" of the brain and how this machinery goes tragically awry in autism -- a disease that afflicts more than a million Americans and is the fastest growing developmental disorder. In an article published early online by the journal Current Biology, Duke University Medical Center neurobiologists Michael Platt, Robert Deaner and Amit Khera describe experiments in which they gave male rhesus macaque monkeys juice rewards for glancing at either a neutral target on a computer screen or images of other monkeys. By systematically varying the juice rewards and the images -- including a gray square, higher-ranking or lower-ranking monkeys and female hindquarters -- the researchers could precisely measure how much reward a monkey would "pay" to see which images. The researchers found that the monkeys would forego a significant amount of reward to see an image of a higher-ranking monkey or of female hindquarters. In contrast, the monkeys had to be "paid" more juice to view lower-ranking monkeys. http://www.primates.com/monkeys/brain.html

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A pm directed to the poster, asking him/her to respond to a question on this thread, should solve that problem.

I think the real question is "Given that I pulled this stunt, should I go through on this marriage anyway?"

I didn't read the article, but giving three chances to offenders strikes me as too lenient. We're not talking about an addictive drug here; one strike and you're out makes a lot more sense.

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