Strategy selection during exploratory behavior
This study was designed to assess sex-related differences in the selection of an appropriate strategy when facing novelty. %This %basic behavior has been assumed to support more elaborate behaviors %like spatial abilities. A simple visuo-spatial task was used to investigate exploratory behavior as a...
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Cambridge University Press
2007-10-01
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| author | Catherine Brandner |
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| description | This study was designed to assess sex-related differences in the selection of an appropriate strategy when facing novelty. %This %basic behavior has been assumed to support more elaborate behaviors %like spatial abilities. A simple visuo-spatial task was used to investigate exploratory behavior as a specific response to novelty. % that trades off risk and reward. An The exploration task was followed by a visual discrimination task, and the responses were analyzed using signal detection theory. %, which approaches the subject's behavior as a form of decision-making. During exploration women selected a local searching strategy in which the metric distance between what is already known and what is unknown was reduced, whereas men adopted a global strategy based on an approximately uniform distribution of choices. Women's exploratory behavior gives rise to a notion of a secure base warranting a sense of safety while men's behavior does not appear to be influenced by risk. This sex-related difference was interpreted as a difference in beliefs concerning the likelihood of uncertain events influencing risk evaluation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b5666e5b9f3541cfa1fad569c48feb3b2023-09-02T11:33:11ZengCambridge University PressJudgment and Decision Making1930-29752007-10-012NA326332Strategy selection during exploratory behaviorCatherine BrandnerThis study was designed to assess sex-related differences in the selection of an appropriate strategy when facing novelty. %This %basic behavior has been assumed to support more elaborate behaviors %like spatial abilities. A simple visuo-spatial task was used to investigate exploratory behavior as a specific response to novelty. % that trades off risk and reward. An The exploration task was followed by a visual discrimination task, and the responses were analyzed using signal detection theory. %, which approaches the subject's behavior as a form of decision-making. During exploration women selected a local searching strategy in which the metric distance between what is already known and what is unknown was reduced, whereas men adopted a global strategy based on an approximately uniform distribution of choices. Women's exploratory behavior gives rise to a notion of a secure base warranting a sense of safety while men's behavior does not appear to be influenced by risk. This sex-related difference was interpreted as a difference in beliefs concerning the likelihood of uncertain events influencing risk evaluation.http://journal.sjdm.org/jdm7712.pdfexplorationspontaneous strategiessex differencesdecision-making. |
| spellingShingle | Catherine Brandner Strategy selection during exploratory behavior Judgment and Decision Making exploration spontaneous strategies sex differences decision-making. |
| title | Strategy selection during exploratory behavior |
| title_full | Strategy selection during exploratory behavior |
| title_fullStr | Strategy selection during exploratory behavior |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strategy selection during exploratory behavior |
| title_short | Strategy selection during exploratory behavior |
| title_sort | strategy selection during exploratory behavior |
| topic | exploration spontaneous strategies sex differences decision-making. |
| url | http://journal.sjdm.org/jdm7712.pdf |
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