Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society.

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  2015

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  Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.tics.2014.10.004PMID 25487706PMCID PMC4410143
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