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Personality predicts decision making only when information is unreliable

Date

Authors

Carter, Alecia

Marshall, Harry H

Heinsohn, Robert

Cowlishaw, Guy

Publisher

Academic Press

Abstract

Phenotypic plasticity in decision making should be selected for when reliable information on current conditions is available. When current information is unreliable, however, selection should favour unresponsive behavioural phenotypes, which might lead to

Keywords

Keywords: decision making; emergence; environmental change; food; foraging behavior; information; phenotypic plasticity; primate; selection; Papio; Papio ursinus Anxiety; Boldness; Chacma baboon; Cue reliability; Foraging decision; Information use; Papio ursinus; Personality

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/73756

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Animal Behaviour

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.07.009

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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