Decreasing behavioral investment can also be a way in which organisms deal with the cost-to-benefit ratio. There are many examples of behavioral shutdown mechanisms in nature, such as sleep, ...

Behavioral Economics is the application of psychology to the field of economics. It describes the role that psychology plays among consumers, employers, and governments, which then impacts markets and ...

Prospect theory [1, 2, 3] has perhaps been one of the most influential theories within psychology and behavioral economics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel prize for this work. Prospect theory and ...

Certain aspects of the behavioral ecology of the tropical hermit crab, Calibanarius abidigitus, can be analyzed more fully with the use of fitness set theory. Building on the premise that an optimum ...

What we eat can have an outsize ill effect on the planet. Food production is believed to contribute anywhere from 20% to 40% of Earth’s greenhouse gas emissions, but animal agriculture is responsible ...

Today, doctors are faced with the dual challenge of navigating a vast landscape of medical knowledge and addressing the surge in lifestyle-related diseases. To put this surge into perspective, they ...