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An empirical demonstration of risk-sensitive foraging preferences
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In this paper, the authors report laboratory experiments with yellow-eyed juncos (Junco phaeonotus) revealing that the birds' foraging preferences for variable rewards respond not only to the mean, but also the variance, of food rewards.About:
This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 1980-08-01. It has received 698 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foraging & Cardinal utility.read more
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Citation classic - optimal foraging - a selective review of theory and tests
TL;DR: A review of the literature on optimal foraging can be found in this article, with a focus on the theoretical developments and the data that permit tests of the predictions, and the authors conclude that the simple models so far formulated are supported by available data and that they are optimistic about the value both now and in the future.
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Optimal Foraging Theory: A Critical Review
TL;DR: It follows that the proportion of individuals in a population foraging in ways that enhance their fitness will tend to increase over time, and the average foraging behavior will increasingly come to be characterized by those characteristics that enhance individual fitness.
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Optimal Bird Migration: The Relative Importance of Time, Energy, and Safety
Thomas Alerstam,Åke Lindström +1 more
TL;DR: “Optimization is the process of minimizing costs or maximizing benefits, or obtaining the best possible compromise between the two,” (R. McNeill Alexander 1982).
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How to Make Cognitive Illusions Disappear: Beyond “Heuristics and Biases”
TL;DR: Most so-called "errors" in probabilistic reasoning are in fact not violations of probability theory as mentioned in this paper, and they can make apparently stable 'errors' disappear, reappear, or even invert.
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From an animal's point of view: Motivation, fitness, and animal welfare.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an objective basis for deciding when an animal is suffering, which includes a wide range of unpleasant emotional states such as fear, boredom, pain, and hunger, and the care of animals can be based on an objective, animal-centered assessment of their needs.
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
TL;DR: Theory of games and economic behavior as mentioned in this paper is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based, and it has been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations.
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Observational study of behavior: sampling methods.
TL;DR: Seven major types of sampling for observational studies of social behavior have been found in the literature and the major strengths and weaknesses of each method are pointed out.
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Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Trade-Offs
TL;DR: In this article, a confused decision maker, who wishes to make a reasonable and responsible choice among alternatives, can systematically probe his true feelings in order to make those critically important, vexing trade-offs between incommensurable objectives.
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the maximization of individual wealth is not an ordinary problem in variational calculus, because the individual does not control, and may even be ignorant of, some of the variables.
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Risk Aversion in the Small and in the Large
TL;DR: In this article, a measure of risk aversion in the small, the risk premium or insurance premium for an arbitrary risk, and a natural concept of decreasing risk aversion are discussed and related to one another.
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