Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making
$103.31
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
19 March 2024
Summary
A multidisciplinary examination of cognitive mechanisms, shaped over evolutionary time through natural selection, that govern decision making.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551502 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262551500 |
| Author: | Peter Hammerstein, Jeffrey R. Stevens |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Strüngmann Forum Reports |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
Peter Hammerstein
Peter Hammerstein is Professor in Organismic Evolution at the Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt University, Berlin and an external member of the interdisciplinary Santa Fe Institute.
Jeffrey R. Stevens is Assistant Professor of Psychology and a faculty member of the Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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