This article presents a unifying theory of the embodied, situated human brain called the
Hierarchically Mechanistic Mind (HMM). The HMM describes the brain as a complex …

As reflected in the amount of controversy, few areas in psychology have undergone such
dramatic conceptual changes in the past decade as the emerging science of heuristics …

Integrative explanations of why obesity is more prevalent in some sectors of the human
population than others are lacking. Here, we outline and evaluate one candidate …

The 'ODD'(Overview, Design concepts, and Details) protocol was published in 2006 to
standardize the published descriptions of individual-based and agent-based models …

A key issue in animal behaviour is the need to understand variation in behavioural
responses to human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC) such as habitat loss …

This year is the 50th anniversary of Tinbergen's (1963) article 'On aims and methods of
ethology', where he first outlined the four 'major problems of biology'. The classification of the …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Modern decision neuroscience offers a powerful and broad account of human behaviour
using computational techniques that link psychological and neuroscientific approaches to …

This chapter provides an overview of life history theory (LHT). LHT conceptualizes specific
allocation tradeoffs in terms of three broad, fundamental trade‐offs: the present‐future …

Counterintuitively, biases in behavior or cognition can improve decision making. Under
conditions of uncertainty and asymmetric costs of 'false-positive'and 'false-negative'errors …