UID:
almahu_9948044013902882
Umfang:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9780262306027 (ebook) :
Serie:
Strüngmann Forum reports
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Previously issued in print: 2012.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version : ISBN 9780262018081
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
MIT Press scholarship online
