The subtleties of error management

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 309-319

  McKay, Ryan ^a,b   Efferson, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioral biases; Cognitive biases; Error management theory; Expected utility theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955576516     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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