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<b>A multidisciplinary examination of cognitive mechanisms, shaped over evolutionary time through natural selection, that govern decision making.</b><p>How do we make decisions? Conventional decision theory tells us only which behavioral choices we ought to make if we follow certain axioms. In real life, however, our choices are governed by cognitive mechanisms shaped over evolutionary time through the process of natural selection. Evolution has created strong biases in how and when we process i

Who reads Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making?

Author

Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262306027

Category

psychology

Subjects

Psychology, Science, Neuropsychology

Updated

2026-03-24