Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making / edited by Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hammerstein, Peter, 1949-

Stevens, Jeffrey R., 1974-

Conference Name:

Ernst Strüngmann Forum. 11h : 2011 : Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Series:

Strüngmann Forum reports

Strüngmann forum reports

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

xi, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2012]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"Eleventh Ernst Strüngmann Forum held June 19-24, 2011, Frankfurt am Main."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262018081

026201808X

OCLC:

793581340