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Fortune Favours the Bold: An Agent-Based Model Reveals Adaptive Advantages of Overconfidence in War

Overconfidence has long been considered a cause of war. Like other decision-making biases, overconfidence seems detrimental because it increases the frequency and costs of fighting. However, evolutionary biologists have proposed that overconfidence may also confer adaptive advantages: increasing amb...

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Autores principales: Johnson, Dominic D. P., Weidmann, Nils B., Cederman, Lars-Erik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3123293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731627
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020851