14 Sources of Variation within the Individual

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  • Gordon D. A. Brown
  • Alex M. Wood
  • Nick Chater
چکیده

This chapter reviews sources of variation in decision making and choice that arise within the individual, and discusses the possible signifi cance of such variation for the development of an evolutionarily plausible account of decision making. Different sources of within-individual variation are reviewed, including noise, general cognitive ability and life span changes, mood, and personality. The approaches taken by economics, cognitive psychology, and the psychology of personality and individual differences are compared to and contrasted with ecological and evolutionary approaches. It is argued that sampling models may provide a unifi ed cognitive approach to withinand between-individual variation in human judgment and decision making, albeit one that has yet to be linked suffi ciently to ecological and evolutionary approaches.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012