Limits to Action
：The Allocation of Individual Behavior
Publication subTitle ：The Allocation of Individual Behavior
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781483276540
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780126626506
Subject： C912.6 Social psychology and social behavior
Keyword： 心理学
Language： ENG
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Description
Limits to Action: The Allocation of Individual Behavior presents the ideas and methods in the study of how individual organisms allocate their limited time and energy and the consequences of such allocation.
The book is a survey of individual resource allocation, emphasizing the relationships of the concepts of utility, reinforcement, and Darwinian fitness. The chapters are arranged beginning with plants and general evolutionary considerations, through animal behavior in nature and laboratory, and ending with human behavior in suburb and institution. Topics discussed include operant conditioning; the principle of diminishing returns; and issues in relation to mating strategies.
Biologists, sociologists, economists, and psychologists will find the book interesting.