The evolution of conspecific acceptance threshold models.

ABSTRACT: How do organisms balance different types of recognition errors when cues associated with desirable and undesirable individuals or resources overlap? This is a fundamental question of signal detection theory (SDT). As applied in sociobiology, SDT is not limited to a single context or animal taxon, therefore its application can span what may be considered dissimilar systems. One of the applications of SDT is the suite of acceptance threshold models proposed by Reeve (1989), which analysed how individuals should balance acceptance and rejection errors in social discrimination decisions across a variety of recognition contexts, distinguished by how these costs and benefits relatively combine. We conducted a literature review to evaluate whether these models' specific predictions have been uphe

SUBMITTER: Scharf HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7331004 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature