Dyadic 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