On the origin of risk sensitivity: The energy budget rule revisited

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 110, Issue , 2015, Pages 69-77

  Lim, Ik Soo ^a   Wittek, Peter ^b,c   Parkinson, John ^d  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Budget rule; Decision making; Foraging theory; Risk sensitivity; Z score model

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY BUDGET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; THRESHOLD;

EID: 84944887325     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.09.007     Document Type: Article

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