How goal-fulfillment decreases aggression

Goal Fulfillment and Goal Targets in Sequential Choice

This article examines the effect of goal fulfillment on choices made in the context of an ongoing sequence of experiences. We find that a good first experience produces an upward shift in the target level of goal achievement. When a higher level of goal attainment Is offered by a risky option, that option will be preferred more following a good experience than following a bad experience. Severa...

How Food Controls Aggression in Drosophila

How animals use sensory information to weigh the risks vs. benefits of behavioral decisions remains poorly understood. Inter-male aggression is triggered when animals perceive both the presence of an appetitive resource, such as food or females, and of competing conspecific males. How such signals are detected and integrated to control the decision to fight is not clear. For instance, it is unc...

Automatically Exploring How Uncertainty Impacts Goal Satisfaction

A dynamically adaptive system (DAS) monitors itself and its execution environment to assess requirements satisfaction at run time. Unanticipated environmental conditions may cause sensory inputs that alter the self-assessment capabilities of a DAS in unpredictable and undesirable ways. Moreover, it is impossible for a human to know and/or enumerate all possible combinations of system and enviro...

Towards Know-how Mapping Using Goal Modeling

In organizing the knowledge in a field of study, it is common to use classification techniques to organize concepts and approaches along dimensions of interest. In technology domains, an advance often appears in the form of a new way or method for achieving an objective. This paper proposes to use goal modeling to map the means-ends knowledge (“know-how”) in a domain. A know-how map highlights ...

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