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.

Preface.- Contributors.- 1 Psychological Perspectives.- 1 Cognitive Theory and Methodology for Studying Marital Interaction.- Theoretical Overview.- Personal Experimental Design.- Empirical Analysis.- Attitude Theory.- Everyday Life.- 2 The Role of the Relationship in Marital Decision Making.- Group Decision Making.- The Role of Interpersonal Perception.- Decisions About the Relationship.- Conclusion.- 3 Expectancy Theory and Image Theory in the Description of Decisions About Childbearing.- The Benefits and Costs of Cost-Benefit.- Some Lessons Learned.- Image Theory.- Implications for Research.- Concluding Remarks.- 2 Consumer Behavior Perspectives.- 4 Couple Decision Making: Individual- and Dyadic-Level Analysis.- Individual-Level Analysis.- Implications of Member Differences on Perceptual and Preference.- Structures.- More General Individual Variables and Relational Variables.- The Decision Context.- Interaction Processes.- The Coding System.- Implementation of Coding System.- Integration of Individual and Dyadic Decisions.- Concluding Remarks.- Appendix 4.A.- Appendix 4.B.- 5 Analyzing Sequential Categorical Data on Dyadic Interaction.- Background: Data Format and Construct Definition.- Analysis of Sequences of Paired Data.- Analysis of Single Sequence Data.- A General Probabilistic Model.- Summary.- 6 Information Integration in Husband-Wife Decision Making About Health-Care Services.- Previous Methods.- Consumer Information Integration.- Experiment 1.- Experiment 2.- Experiment 3.- General Discussion.- Appendix 6. A.- 3 Communication Perspectives.- 7 After the Decision: Compliance-Gaining in Marital Interaction.- Introduction..- A Typological Approach to Marital Interaction.- Compliance-Gaining in Marriage.- Conclusion.- Appendix 7.A.- 8 Implicit and Explicit Decision-Making Styles in Couples.- Decision-Making Styles.- Eliciting Conditions.- Resources and Demands.- Summary and Conclusion.- 9 The Structuring of Dyadic Decisions.- A Picture of Dyadic Decision Making.- The Theory of Structuration.- A Model of the Structuring of Dyadic Decisions.- The Structuring of Dyadic Decisions.- Conclusion.- 4 Sociological Perspectives.- 10 Joint-Decision Making in the Contemporary Sexually Based Primary Relationship.- The Contemporary Primary Relationship.- Elements of Joint Decision Making.- Joint Decision Making Within the Sexually Based Situation.- Summary.- 11 Dyadic Models of Contraceptive Choice, 1957-1975.- Resolution of Fertility Disagreements.- Interaction Models of Individual Goals and Contraceptive Behavior.- Desires for Children and Marital Contraception, 1975.- Desires for Children and Marital Contraception, 1957.- Desires for Children and Marital Contraception, 1957 and 1975.- 12 Decision-Making on Retirement Timing.- The Retirement Decision-Making Process.- Previous Research.- Sex Differences in Retirement Timing and Adjustment.- Some Preliminary Findings.- Conclusion.- 5 A Reprise.- 13 Multiple Perspectives on Dyadic Decision Making.- Interaction Analysis.- Translating Interaction Information into Empirical Data.- Research Agenda for Dyadic Decision-Making.- Author Index.