Doctoral Dissertation Research in Decision, Risk, and Management Science

这是一个健全的，经过深思熟虑的论文提案，研究儿童在社会情况下的决策。本研究的目的是了解儿童的社会决策过程，并评估这些过程与行为结果之间的关系。这项任务本身，即在日常情况下对挑衅的反应，对儿童和成人都具有重要的社会意义。这个问题和方法在判断-决策领域和发展-人格领域都没有得到太多的考虑。这项工作应该在基础和应用两方面都取得有益的结果。总之，这个项目是重要的，因为它是第一次尝试构建和实证一个具体的，面向过程的理论，儿童在生态相关的行为情况下的社会决策。

This is a sound, well-considered dissertation proposal to study children's decision-making in social situations. The general goals of this investigation are to understand children's social decision- making processes and to evaluate the relation between these processes and behavioral outcomes. The task itself, reactions to provocation in everyday situations, is socially important to both children and adults. Neither the problem nor the approach have received much consideration in the judgment-decision field or in the developmental-personality field. This work should give useful results at both basic and applied levels. In sum, this project is significant because it is the first attempt to construct and test empirically a specific, process-oriented theory of children's social decision making in an ecologically relevant behavioral situation.