The adaptive value of preference for immediacy: when shortsighted rules have farsighted consequences

By D. Stephens, D. Anderson. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Small Animals

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Trapline foraging by bumble bees: IV. Optimization of route geometry in the absence of competition (2007, background): “This conservative preference for short distances could be interpreted as a limitation of the bees’ visual resolution (Giurfa et al. 1996) or as a decision rule to maximize short-term benefits by reducing immediate costs of movement between flowers (Stephens and Anderson 2001).”
Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty (2008, methodology): “Also largely missing from biology is the idea that simple heuristics may be superior to more complex methods, not just a necessary evil because of the simplicity of animal nervous systems (but see Bookstaber & Langsam, 1985; Real, 1992; Stephens & Anderson, 2001; Stephens, 2002).”
The adaptive nature of impulsivity. (2010, background): “The pileated woodpecker feeds on wood-boring insects, and it uses its beak to chisel its prey from their galleries below the bark.”
Can domestic fowl, Gallus gallus domesticus, show self-control? (2005, methodology): “This has been a criticism of the selfcontrol paradigm, especially as results from the operant laboratory are often inconsistent with behaviour predicted by optimal foraging theory (Stephens & Anderson 2001).”
Prospection and the Present Moment: The Role of Episodic Foresight in Intertemporal Choices between Immediate and Delayed Rewards (2016, background): “When given a choice between a smaller immediate reward, and a larger but delayed one, both humans and nonhuman animals tend to prefer the immediate (albeit smaller) option (Ainslie, 1974; Mazur, 1987; Stephens & Anderson, 2001).”
The foraging brain (2015, background): “First, animals have evolved to forage and thus foraging tasks and analyses reorient us toward the brain working as it is designed, by evolution, to work [15,16 ,17].”