Who takes risks, and why? Does risk-taking in one context predict risk-taking in other
contexts? We seek to address these questions by considering two non-independent …

Variation in life history (LH) traits along the fast-slow continuum (referred to as pace of life,
POL) is thought to result from a trade-off between investments in current versus future …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Samir Okasha approaches evolutionary biology from a philosophical perspective in Agents
and Goals in Evolution, analysing a mode of thinking in biology called agential thinking. He …

Food uncertainty has the effect of invigorating food-related responses. Psychologists have
noted that mammals and birds respond more to a conditioned stimulus that unreliably …

Learning the reliability of different sources of rewards is critical for making optimal choices.
However, despite the existence of detailed theory describing how the expected reward is …

Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) appear to be robustly risk-seeking in computerized
gambling tasks typically used for electrophysiology. This behavior distinguishes them from …

Our target article proposes that a new concept–incentive hope–is necessary in the
behavioral sciences to explain animal foraging under harsh environmental conditions …

Humans and other animals accumulate resources, or wealth, by making successive risky
decisions. If and how risk attitudes vary with wealth remains an open question. Here humans …

Loss aversion is often assumed to be a basic and far-reaching psychological regularity in
behavior. Yet empirical evidence is accumulating to challenge the assumption of …