Temporal discounting predicts individual competitive success in a human analogue of group foraging

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 315-331

  Critchfield, Thomas S ^a   Atteberry, Tracy ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive weight; Group choice; Habitat matching; Impulsiveness; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING; GROUP DYNAMICS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SELF CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0142186191     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(03)00129-3     Document Type: Article

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