Variation in Decision Making
Year: 2012
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Variation in how organisms allocate their behavior over their lifetimes is key to determining Darwinian fitness., and thus the evolution of human and nonhuman decision making. This chapter explores how decision making varies across biologically and societally significant scales and what role such variation plays when trying to understand decision making from an evolutionary perspective. The importance of explicitly considering variation is highlighted, both when attempting to predict economically and socially important patterns of behavior and to obtain a deepter understanding of the fundamental biological processes involved. Key elements of a framework are identified for incorporating variation into a general theory of Darwinian decision making.
Source: The MIT Press eBooks
Language: English
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2096259104