Meanings of behavioural ecologist in English

Kim Hill talks to behavioural ecologist Dr Rochelle Constantine, Senior Lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland.

Behavioural ecologists predict preferences using absolute properties of each option, while decision theorists focus on relative evaluations at the time of choice.

This can be done combining normative models derived from evolutionary hypotheses with descriptive regularities across species found by experimental psychologists and behavioural ecologists.