
Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making.
Title:
Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making.
Author:
Hammerstein, Peter.
ISBN:
9780262306027
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (447 pages)
Series:
Strüngmann Forum Reports
Contents:
Contents -- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum -- List of Contributors -- 1 Six Reasons for Invoking Evolution in Decision Theory -- Biological and Cognitive Prerequisites -- 2 Putting Mechanisms into Behavioral Ecology -- 3 Machinery of Cognition -- 4 Building Blocks of Human Decision Making -- 5 Error Management -- 6 Neuroethology of Decision Making -- 7 Decision Making: What Can Evolution Do for Us? -- Robustness in a Variable Environment -- 8 Robustness in Biological and Social Systems -- 9 Robust Neural Decision Making -- 10 Advantages of Cognitive Limitations -- 11 Modularity and Decision Making -- 12 Robustness in a Variable Environment -- Variation in Decision Making -- 13 Biological Analogs of Personality -- 14 Sources of Variation within the Individual -- 15 Variation in Decision Making -- Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition -- 16 The Cognitive Underpinnings of Social Behavior -- 17 Early Social Cognition: How Psychological Mechanisms Can Inform Models of Decision Making -- 18 Who Cares? Other-Regarding Concerns- Decisions with Feeling -- 19 Learning, Cognitive Limitations, and the Modeling of Social Behavior -- 20 Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Genre:
Added Author:
Electronic Access:
Click to View