Triumphs and trials of the risk paradigm

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1117-1129

  Kacelnik, Alex ^a   El Mouden, Claire ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Budget rule; Foraging theory; Risk sensitivity; Scalar utility theory; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84888199107     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.09.034     Document Type: Article

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