Learning your own strength: Winner and loser effects should change with age and experience

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1686, 2010, Pages 1427-1434

  Fawcett, Tim W ^a   Johnstone, Rufus A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic model; Hawk dove game; Loser effect; State dependent aggression; Winner effect

Indexed keywords

AGEISM; AGGRESSION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); LEARNING; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 77952286511     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2088     Document Type: Article

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