Abstract
Despite the clear fitness consequences of animal decisions, the science of animal decision making in evolutionary biology is underdeveloped compared with decision science in human psychology. Specifically, the field lacks a conceptual framework that defines and describes the relevant components of a decision, leading to imprecise language and concepts. The ‘judgment and decision-making’ (JDM) framework in human psychology is a powerful tool for framing and understanding human decisions, and we apply it here to components of animal decisions, which we refer to as ‘cognitive phenotypes’. We distinguish multiple cognitive phenotypes in the context of a JDM framework and highlight empirical approaches to characterize them as evolvable traits.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 850-859 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Trends in Ecology and Evolution |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 1 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Keywords
- choice
- cognitive phenotype
- discrimination
- judgment and decision making
- preference
- recognition
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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Cognitive Phenotypes and the Evolution of Animal Decisions. / Mendelson, Tamra C.; Fitzpatrick, Courtney L.; Hauber, Mark E.; Pence, Charles H.; Rodríguez, Rafael L.; Safran, Rebecca J.; Stern, Caitlin A.; Stevens, Jeffrey R.
In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 31, No. 11, 01.11.2016, p. 850-859.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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