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    Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making / (2012)
    Cambridge, MA :MIT Press,
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    almahu_9949253361802882
    Format: 1 online resource (xi, 434 pages) : , illustrations (some color).
    ISBN: 0262306026 , 9780262306027 , 9780262306942 , 0262306948
    Series Statement: Strüngmann forum reports
    Content: 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 created strong biases in how and when we process information, and it is these evolved cognitive building blocks--from signal detection and memory to individual and social learning--that provide the foundation for our choices. An evolutionary perspective thus sheds necessary light on the nature of how we and other animals make decisions. This volume--with contributors from a broad range of disciplines, including evolutionary biology, psychology, economics, anthropology, neuroscience, and computer science--offers a multidisciplinary examination of what evolution can tell us about our and other animals' mechanisms of decision making. Human children, for example, differ from chimpanzees in their tendency to over-imitate others and copy obviously useless actions; this divergence from our primate relatives sets up imitation as one of the important mechanisms underlying human decision making. The volume also considers why and when decision mechanisms are robust, why they vary across individuals and situations, and how social life affects our decisions.
    Note: "Eleventh Ernst Strüngmann Forum held June 19-24, 2011, Frankfurt am Main."
    Language: English
    URL: MIT CogNet
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    HU Berlin
    MPI Bildungsforschung
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    Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making / (2016)
    Cambridge, Massachusetts :The MIT Press,
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    almahu_9948044013902882
    Format: 1 online resource : , illustrations (black and white).
    ISBN: 9780262306027 (ebook) :
    Series Statement: Strüngmann Forum reports
    Content: How do we make decisions? Perhaps surprisingly, conventional decision theory does not attempt to answer this question. It tells us only which behavioural choices we ought to make if we follow certain axioms. In real life, however, axioms play no role in people's decision making. Our choices are governed by cognitive mechanisms shaped over evolutionary time through the process of natural selection. From signal detection and memory to individual and social learning, evolution has created strong biases in how and when we process information, and it is these evolved cognitive building blocks that provide the foundation for our choices. An evolutionary perspective is thus necessary to shed light on the nature of how we make decisions. The authors of this book engaged in a multidisciplinary discourse around the question of what it is exactly that evolution can tell us about our mechanisms of decision making.
    Note: Previously issued in print: 2012.
    Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780262018081
    Language: English
    URL: MIT Press scholarship online
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    HU Berlin
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    Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making / (2012)
    Cambridge, MA :MIT Press,
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    UID:
    almafu_9959239697702883
    Format: 1 online resource (447 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 1-283-87014-2 , 0-262-30602-6
    Series Statement: Strüngmann forum reports
    Content: 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 created strong biases in how and when we process information, and it is these evolved cognitive building blocks--from signal detection and memory to individual and social learning--that provide the foundation for our choices. An evolutionary perspective thus sheds necessary light on the nature of how we and other animals make decisions. This volume--with contributors from a broad range of disciplines, including evolutionary biology, psychology, economics, anthropology, neuroscience, and computer science--offers a multidisciplinary examination of what evolution can tell us about our and other animals' mechanisms of decision making. Human children, for example, differ from chimpanzees in their tendency to over-imitate others and copy obviously useless actions; this divergence from our primate relatives sets up imitation as one of the important mechanisms underlying human decision making. The volume also considers why and when decision mechanisms are robust, why they vary across individuals and situations, and how social life affects our decisions.
    Note: "Eleventh Ernst Strüngmann Forum held June 19-24, 2011, Frankfurt am Main." , ""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 Concernsâ€? Decisions with Feeling""; ""19 Learning, Cognitive Limitations, and the Modeling of Social Behavior"" , ""20 Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition""""Bibliography""; ""Subject Index"" , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-262-01808-X
    Language: English
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    FU Berlin
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