Unpacking the Exploration–Exploitation Tradeoff: A Synthesis of Human and Animal Literatures

By S. Mehlhorn, Ben R. Newell, Peter M. Todd, Michael D. Lee, Kate V. Morgan, Victoria A. Braithwaite, D. Hausmann, Klaus Fiedler, Cleotilde González. 2015

342 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Safety Research

1. Alexander Tschantz
2. Beren Millidge
3. Anil K. Seth
4. Wouter van den Bos
5. C. L. Buckley

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Anil K. Seth
2. H. Eugene Stanley
3. Wouter van den Bos

Citations in the corpus

• The science of science: from the perspective of complex systems (2017, background): “A proper balance between exploration and exploitation is considered to be critical for adaptive behavior in humans and other animals [395,400,401].”
• Adolescent risk-taking in the context of exploration and social influence (2021, background): “…van den Bos Developmental Review 61 (2021) 100979 novel and uncertain environment, adopting others’ behaviour can be beneficial (Chase et al., 1998; Mehlhorn et al., 2015) because it protects the individual from potentially costly trial and error learning (FeldmanHall et al., 2017; Molleman et…”
• Understanding the origin of information-seeking exploration in probabilistic objectives for control (2021, background): “…Smith, & Shalley, 2006; He & Wong, 2004; March, 1991; Miller & Martignoni, 2016; Sudhir, 2016), evolutionary theory (Črepinšek, Liu, & Mernik, 2013; Mehlhorn et al., 2015; Traulsen, Hauert, De Silva, Nowak, & Sigmund, 2009; Zhang, Sun, Liu, Zhang, & Zhang, 2019), and optimal foraging theory…”