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List of works by Pete C Trimmer

Adaptive Use of Information during Growth Can Explain Long-Term Effects of Early Life Experiences

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Adaptive learning can result in a failure to profit from good conditions: implications for understanding depression

scientific article published on 26 April 2015

Decision-making under uncertainty: biases and Bayesians

scientific article published on March 2011

Does natural selection favour the Rescorla-Wagner rule?

scientific article published in June 2012

Environmental variability can select for optimism or pessimism

scientific article published on November 11, 2010

Evolutionary history mediates population response to rapid environmental change through within-generational and transgenerational plasticity

Foraging for foundations in decision neuroscience: insights from ethology

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Generalized Optimal Risk Allocation: Foraging and Antipredator Behavior in a Fluctuating Environment

scientific article published on September 27, 2012

Is optimism optimal? Functional causes of apparent behavioural biases

scientific article published on November 12, 2011

It is optimal to be optimistic about survival

scientific article

Mammalian choices: combining fast-but-inaccurate and slow-but-accurate decision-making systems

article

On evolutionary explanations of cognitive biases

scientific article published on 18 June 2013

On the evolution and optimality of mood States

scientific article

Optimal behaviour can violate the principle of regularity

scientific article published on June 5, 2013

Predicting Habitat Choice after Rapid Environmental Change

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

Predicting behavioural responses to novel organisms: state-dependent detection theory.

scientific article published in January 2017

Predicting evolutionarily stable strategies from functional responses of Sonoran Desert annuals to precipitation

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Prey Responses to Exotic Predators: Effects of Old Risks and New Cues

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Rapid environmental change in games: complications and counter-intuitive outcomes

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

Rapid environmental change in games: complications and curiosities

Sequential choices using signal detection theory can reverse classical predictions

scholarly article

Shifts between cooperation and antagonism driven by individual variation: A systematic synthesis review

preprint

Shifts between cooperation and antagonism driven by individual variation: a systematic synthesis review

scientific article published in 2021

The erroneous signals of detection theory.

scientific article published in October 2017

The evolution of decision rules in complex environments.

scientific article published on 25 January 2014

Unbiased individuals use valuable information when making decisions: a reply to Johnson and Fowler

scientific article published on 09 July 2013

Understanding the placebo effect from an evolutionary perspective

scientific article