Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making /edited by Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens.
Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making /edited by Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens.
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (xi, 434 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Strüngmann forum reports .
"Eleventh Ernst Strüngmann Forum held June 19-24, 2011, Frankfurt am Main."
Includes bibliographies and index.
List of contributors -- Six reasons for invoking evolution in decision theory / Putting mechanisms into behavioral ecology / Machinery of cognition / Building blocks of human decision making / Error management theory / Neuroethology of decision making / Platt -- Decision making : what can evolution do for us? / Robustness in a variable environment -- Robustness in biological and social systems / Robust neural decision-making / Advantages of cognitive limitations / Modularity and decision making / Robustness in a variable environment / Variation in decision making -- Biological analogs of personality / Sources of variation within the individual / Variation in decision making / Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition -- The cognitive underpinnings of social behavior : selectivity in social cognition / Early social cognition : how psychological mechanism can inform models of decision making / Who cares? : other-regarding concerns decisions with feeling / Learning, cognitive limitations, and the modeling of social behavior / Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition / Bibliography -- Subject index. Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens -- Alex Kacelnik -- Charles R. Gallistel -- Nick Chater -- Daniel Nettle -- Geoffrey K. Adams, Karli K. Watson, John Pearson, and Michael -- Edward H. Hagen, Nick Chater, C. Randy Gallistel, Alasdair Houston, Alex Kacelnik, Tobias Kalenscher, Daniel Nettle, Danny Oppenheimer and David W. Stephens -- Jessica C. Flack, Peter Hammerstein, and David C. Krakauer -- Peter Dayan -- Yaakov Kareev -- Robert Kurzban -- 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 -- Niels J. Dingemanse and Max Wolf -- Gordon D.A. Brown, Alex M. Wood, and Nick Chater -- 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 -- Thomas Mussweiler, Andrew R. Todd, and Jan Crusius -- Felix Warneken and Alexandra Rosati -- Keith Jensen -- Peter Hammerstein and Robert Boyd -- Robert Boyd, Benjamin Bossan, Simon Goñchter, Thomas Griffiths, Peter Hammerstein, Keith Jensen, Thomas Mussweiler, Rosemarie Nagel, and Felix Warneken --
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.
9780262306027 9780262306942
Decision making--Congresses.
Cognition--Congresses.
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution ECONOMICS/General
Electronic Books.
BF448 / .E965 2012
"Eleventh Ernst Strüngmann Forum held June 19-24, 2011, Frankfurt am Main."
Includes bibliographies and index.
List of contributors -- Six reasons for invoking evolution in decision theory / Putting mechanisms into behavioral ecology / Machinery of cognition / Building blocks of human decision making / Error management theory / Neuroethology of decision making / Platt -- Decision making : what can evolution do for us? / Robustness in a variable environment -- Robustness in biological and social systems / Robust neural decision-making / Advantages of cognitive limitations / Modularity and decision making / Robustness in a variable environment / Variation in decision making -- Biological analogs of personality / Sources of variation within the individual / Variation in decision making / Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition -- The cognitive underpinnings of social behavior : selectivity in social cognition / Early social cognition : how psychological mechanism can inform models of decision making / Who cares? : other-regarding concerns decisions with feeling / Learning, cognitive limitations, and the modeling of social behavior / Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition / Bibliography -- Subject index. Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens -- Alex Kacelnik -- Charles R. Gallistel -- Nick Chater -- Daniel Nettle -- Geoffrey K. Adams, Karli K. Watson, John Pearson, and Michael -- Edward H. Hagen, Nick Chater, C. Randy Gallistel, Alasdair Houston, Alex Kacelnik, Tobias Kalenscher, Daniel Nettle, Danny Oppenheimer and David W. Stephens -- Jessica C. Flack, Peter Hammerstein, and David C. Krakauer -- Peter Dayan -- Yaakov Kareev -- Robert Kurzban -- 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 -- Niels J. Dingemanse and Max Wolf -- Gordon D.A. Brown, Alex M. Wood, and Nick Chater -- 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 -- Thomas Mussweiler, Andrew R. Todd, and Jan Crusius -- Felix Warneken and Alexandra Rosati -- Keith Jensen -- Peter Hammerstein and Robert Boyd -- Robert Boyd, Benjamin Bossan, Simon Goñchter, Thomas Griffiths, Peter Hammerstein, Keith Jensen, Thomas Mussweiler, Rosemarie Nagel, and Felix Warneken --
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.
9780262306027 9780262306942
Decision making--Congresses.
Cognition--Congresses.
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution ECONOMICS/General
Electronic Books.
BF448 / .E965 2012