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

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 cr...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via MIT Press)
Corporate Author:	Ernst Strüngmann Forum Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Other Authors:	Hammerstein, Peter, 1949-, Stevens, Jeffrey R., 1974-
Format:	Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2012. ©2012.
Series:	Strüngmann Forum reports.
Subjects:	Decision making > Congresses. Cognition > Congresses. Cognition. Decision making. Conference papers and proceedings.