Behavioral Ecology and Economic Decisions Laboratory

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The Behavioral Ecology and Economic Decisions Laboratory (BEEDL) provides resources and workspace for anthropologists interested in human decision-making and behavior in an ecological and evolutionary context, with specific focus on subsistence in rural populations. We are concerned with two stages of analysis. The first is how individuals make decisions, including processes of perception, evaluation, emotion, and social learning, as explored through experimental economic methods. The second stage is the behavioral outcomes of decisions, including food production and household livelihood strategies, as explored through ethnographic methods.