Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making /

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How do we make decisions? Conventional decision theory tells us only which behavioral choices we ought to make if we follow certain axioms. In real life, however, our choices are governed by cognitive mechanisms shaped over evolutionary time through the process of natural selection. Evolution has cr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Ernst Strüngmann Forum Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Otros Autores: Hammerstein, Peter, 1949-, Stevens, Jeffrey R., 1974-
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2012.
©2012
Colección:Strüngmann Forum reports.
Temas:
Decision making > Congresses.
Cognition > Congresses.
Prise de décision > Congrès.
Cognition > Congrès.
SELF-HELP > Motivational & Inspirational.
Cognition.
Decision making.
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
ECONOMICS/General
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of contributors
  • Six reasons for invoking evolution in decision theory / Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens
  • Putting mechanisms into behavioral ecology / Alex Kacelnik
  • Machinery of cognition / Charles R. Gallistel
  • Building blocks of human decision making / Nick Chater
  • Error management theory / Daniel Nettle
  • Neuroethology of decision making / Geoffrey K. Adams, Karli K. Watson, John Pearson, and Michael
  • Platt
  • Decision making : what can evolution do for us? / Edward H. Hagen, Nick Chater, C. Randy Gallistel, Alasdair Houston, Alex Kacelnik, Tobias Kalenscher, Daniel Nettle, Danny Oppenheimer and David W. Stephens
  • Robustness in a variable environment
  • Robustness in biological and social systems / Jessica C. Flack, Peter Hammerstein, and David C. Krakauer
  • Robust neural decision-making / Peter Dayan
  • Advantages of cognitive limitations / Yaakov Kareev
  • Modularity and decision making / Robert Kurzban
  • Robustness in a variable environment / Kevin A. Gluck, John M. McNamara, Henry Brighton, Peter Dayan, Yaakov Kareev, Jens Krause, Robert Kurzban, Reinhard Selten, Jeffrey R. Stevens, Bernhard Voelkl, and William C. Wimsatt
  • Variation in decision making
  • Biological analogs of personality / Niels J. Dingemanse and Max Wolf
  • Sources of variation within the individual / Gordon D.A. Brown, Alex M. Wood, and Nick Chater
  • Variation in decision making / Sasha R.X. Dall, Samuel D. Gosling, Gordon D.A. Brown, Niels Dingemanse, Ido Erev, Martin Kocher, Laura Schulz, Peter M. Todd, Franjo J. Weissing, and Max Wolf
  • Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition
  • The cognitive underpinnings of social behavior : selectivity in social cognition / Thomas Mussweiler, Andrew R. Todd, and Jan Crusius
  • Early social cognition : how psychological mechanism can inform models of decision making / Felix Warneken and Alexandra Rosati
  • Who cares? : other-regarding concerns decisions with feeling / Keith Jensen
  • Learning, cognitive limitations, and the modeling of social behavior / Peter Hammerstein and Robert Boyd
  • Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition / Robert Boyd, Benjamin Bossan, Simon Goñchter, Thomas Griffiths, Peter Hammerstein, Keith Jensen, Thomas Mussweiler, Rosemarie Nagel, and Felix Warneken
  • Bibliography
  • Subject index.

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