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After all, what's Selection by Consequences? [PDF]
Interação em Psicologia, 2017 The Skinner's proposal entitled 'Selection by Consequences' seems to ensure a commitment to selectionist epistemology. This notion, however, lacks a consensual definition in the area.
Monalisa de Fátima Freitas Carneiro Leão +1 more
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Fitness consequences of outgroup conflict
eLife, 2022 In social species across the animal kingdom, conspecific outsiders threaten the valuable resources of groups and their members. This outgroup conflict is recognised as a powerful selection pressure, but we argue that studies explicitly quantifying the ...
Ines Braga Goncalves +3 more
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Human demographic history has amplified the effects of background selection across the genome. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2018 Natural populations often grow, shrink, and migrate over time. Such demographic processes can affect genome-wide levels of genetic diversity. Additionally, genetic variation in functional regions of the genome can be altered by natural selection, which ...
Raul Torres +2 more
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Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2004 Objetivou-se apresentar a evolução de conceitos na análise do comportamento, especialmente nos trabalhos de Skinner, desde a definição do conceito de operante, de contingência de reforço, até os processos de seleção por conseqüências, seguindo o ...
João Claudio Todorov
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Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2004 O estudo do comportamento em sociedades foi relegado por quase 50 anos, apesar das reiteradas propostas de Skinner considerando sua importância.
João Claudio Todorov, Maísa Moreira
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Making measures count: Structured indicator selection to improve program success
Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 2020 Indicators are essential, yet often overlooked and undervalued, elements of conservation planning. This is concerning given that selection and implementation of indicators is vital to monitoring, evaluation and learning and can require substantial ...
Marjorie R. Liberati +3 more
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Corrupção e seleção por consequências: uma análise comportamental
Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2018 Resumo A corrupção é um fenômeno global. Sob os parâmetros teóricos e metodológicos da Análise Comportamental da Cultura, constitui nosso objetivo compor um panorama descritivo-explicativo da corrupção como prática cultural, mediante uma análise ...
Kester Carrara, Diego Mansano Fernandes
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A novel framework for classification of selection processes in epidemiological research
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2020 Background Selection and selection bias are terms that lack consistent definitions and have varying meaning and usage across disciplines. There is also confusion in current definitions between underlying mechanisms that lead to selection and their ...
Jonas Björk +3 more
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Evolutionary Applications, 2023 Artificial selection, whether intentional or coincidental, is a common result of conservation policies and natural resource management. To reduce unintended consequences of artificial selection, conservation practitioners must understand both artificial ...
Madilyn M. Gamble, Ryan G. Calsbeek
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From Operant Conditioning to Selection by Consequences
Interação em Psicologia, 2017 .
Julie Vargas
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