Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making (2012)
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Abstract
Reviews the book, Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making edited by P. Hammerstein and J. R. Stevens (2013). This book is subdivided into four sections: Biological and cognitive prerequisites, Robustness in a variable environment, Variation in decision making, and Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition. Each of these sections includes a set of chapters which cover background information on part of that section topic, and then the authors meet to discuss the issue. A final chapter in each section then summarizes the group discussion of the Forum. this is not a book in which every chapter will appeal to ardently evolutionary adaptationists, nor is it a book that evolutionary skeptics will be entirely happy with either. Just about everyone, however, will find chapters which speak to them on their terms. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)
Bibliographic entry
Hammerstein, P., & Stevens, J. R. (Eds.). (2012). Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making (Strüngmann Forum Reports No. 11). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Miscellaneous
| Publication year | 2012 | |
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| Document type: | Book | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
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| Keywords: | decision makingenvironmentsocial cognitiontheory of evolutiondecision makingenvironmentevolutionsocial cognition |