Dyadic Decision Making

Recent research on joint or dyadic decision making has received renewed attention from behavioral scientists. This interest is due mostly to the advances in analytic and conceptual models used to study interaction processes. A number of related disciplines have used distinctive paradigms to study the same focal problem: namely, the processes by which two people interact, come to resolve a problem and, finally, reach a decision. Dyadic Decision Making presents in a single, integrated volume the conceptual and analytic strategies developed in communications research, marketing, psychology and sociology to investigate joint decision making.

Inhalt
Preface.- Contributors.- 1 Psychological Perspectives.- 1 Cognitive Theory and Methodology for Studying Marital Interaction.- 2 The Role of the Relationship in Marital Decision Making.- 3 Expectancy Theory and Image Theory in the Description of Decisions About Childbearing.- 2 Consumer Behavior Perspectives.- 4 Couple Decision Making: Individual- and Dyadic-Level Analysis.- 5 Analyzing Sequential Categorical Data on Dyadic Interaction.- 6 Information Integration in Husband-Wife Decision Making About Health-Care Services.- 3 Communication Perspectives.- 7 After the Decision: Compliance-Gaining in Marital Interaction.- 8 Implicit and Explicit Decision-Making Styles in Couples.- 9 The Structuring of Dyadic Decisions.- 4 Sociological Perspectives.- 10 Joint-Decision Making in the Contemporary Sexually Based Primary Relationship.- 11 Dyadic Models of Contraceptive Choice, 19571975.- 12 Decision-Making on Retirement Timing.- 5 A Reprise.- 13 Multiple Perspectives on Dyadic Decision Making.- Author Index.