Search Results - "Schank, Jeffrey C"

A model of the evolution of equitable offers in n-person dictator games with interbirth intervals by Schank, Jeffrey C.

“…People are often generous even when it is not in their apparent self-interest to do so as demonstrated by numerous experiments using the dictator game (DG)…”
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Small group size promotes more egalitarian societies as modeled by the hawk-dove game by Lin, Kai-Yin, Schank, Jeffrey C

“…The social organization of groups varies greatly across primate species, ranging from egalitarian to despotic. Moreover, the typical or average size of groups…”
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Increased Costs of Cooperation Help Cooperators in the Long Run by Smaldino, Paul E., Schank, Jeffrey C., McElreath, Richard

“…It has long been proposed that cooperation should increase in harsh environments, but this claim still lacks theoretical underpinnings. We modeled a scenario…”
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Toward a Theory of the Evolution of Fair Play by Schank, Jeffrey C, Burghardt, Gordon M, Pellis, Sergio M

“…Juvenile animals of many species engage in social play, but its functional significance is not well understood. This is especially true for a type of social…”
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Simulating the evolution of the human family: cooperative breeding increases in harsh environments by Smaldino, Paul E, Newson, Lesley, Schank, Jeffrey C, Richerson, Peter J

“…Verbal and mathematical models that consider the costs and benefits of behavioral strategies have been useful in explaining animal behavior and are often used…”
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Information and the Umwelt: A theoretical framework for the evolution of play by Schank, Jeffrey C., Lutz, Meredith C., Wood, Sydney Y.

“…Play is phylogenetically widespread, and there are many proposed theories and fitness benefits of play. However, we still need a theoretical framework that…”
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Animal play and evolution: Seven timely research issues about enigmatic phenomena by Burghardt, Gordon M., Pellis, Sergio M., Schank, Jeffrey C., Smaldino, Paul E., Vanderschuren, Louk J.M.J., Palagi, Elisabetta

“…The nature of play in animals has been long debated, but progress is being made in characterizing play and its variants, documenting its distribution across…”
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Pseudoreplication is a Pseudoproblem by Schank, Jeffrey C, Koehnle, Thomas J

“…Pseudoreplication is one of the most influential methodological issues in ecological and animal behavior research today. At its inception, the idea of…”
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Strong group-level traits and selection-transmission thickets by Schank, Jeffrey C

“…I suggest that we should distinguish between weak and strong group-level traits. It is the latter that are especially problematic for developing models of…”
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Movement patterns, social dynamics, and the evolution of cooperation by Smaldino, Paul E., Schank, Jeffrey C.

“…The structure of social interactions influences many aspects of social life, including the spread of information and behavior, and the evolution of social…”
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The evolution and function of play by Schank, Jeffrey C

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The evolution of social play by learning to cooperate by Durand, Sabine, Schank, Jeffrey C

“…Social play is common in mammals but its adaptive significance is not well understood. A commonly held hypothesis is that social play allows juveniles to learn…”
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Evolution of fairness in the dictator game by multilevel selection by Schank, Jeffrey C., Smaldino, Paul E., Miller, Matt L.

“…The most perplexing experimental results on fairness come from the dictator game where one of two players, the dictator, decides how to divide a resource with…”
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Measurement and cycle variability: reexamining the case for ovarian-cycle synchrony in primates by Schank, Jeffrey C

“…Critical reviews of menstrual synchrony studies, over the last 15 years, strongly suggest that synchrony may be a methodological artifact. The primary focus of…”
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The development of locomotor kinematics in neonatal rats: An agent-based modeling analysis in group and individual contexts by Schank, Jeffrey C.

“…An agent-based model of infant rat (pup) locomotion and aggregation was developed by modifying a previous model of pup aggregation [Schank, J.C., Alberts,…”
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Early locomotor and social effects in vasopressin deficient neonatal rats by Schank, Jeffrey C.

“…This study investigated behavioral differences between neonatal rats with vasopressin AVP deficiency (di/di) and those with little (+/di) or no deficiency…”
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Invariants of human emotion by Smaldino, Paul E, Schank, Jeffrey C

“…Because of the complexity of human emotional responses, invariants must be sought not in the responses themselves, but in their generating mechanisms…”
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SWAMP: An agent-based model for wetland and waterfowl conservation management by Miller, Matt L, Ringelman, Kevin M, Schank, Jeffrey C, Eadie, John M

“…The management of North American waterfowl is widely recognized as a premier example of a successful conservation program. Conservation managers on the…”
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Women do not synchronize their menstrual cycles by Yang, Zhengwei, Schank, Jeffrey C

“…It is widely believed that women who live together or who are close friends synchronize their menstrual cycles. We reexamined this phenomenon in two ways…”
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Do human menstrual-cycle pheromones exist? by Schank, Jeffrey C

“…Research over the past 15 years indicates, contrary to earlier results, that women do not synchronize their menstrual cycles. If women do not synchronize their…”
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