Life stages and risk-avoidance: Status- and context-sensitivity in precaution systems

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1067-1074

  Lienard, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalitional psychology; Female risk avoidance and pregnancy; Life history theory; Precaution psychology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGE; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHILD CARE; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; KENYA; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; LIFESPAN; MALADJUSTMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; THREAT;

ANIMALS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION GROUPS; PREGNANCY; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951580831     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.09.007     Document Type: Review

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