In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … of parental control of child behavior and child resistance. Using child reports of decision-making and psychological and … cognitive measures from the NLSY79 Child Supplement, we examine the determinants of shared and sole decision-making in seven …

emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a data set on trainee truckers in a large US company, we provide a … comparing the predictive power of measurements derived from personality theory and decision theory for several individual …. Further, decision theory and personality variables are meaningfully related. For example, we confirm that cognitive ability …

on life satisfaction. The results have negative implications for the still dominant theory of SWB, set-point theory. This … theory holds that adult SWB does not change in the medium or long term, although temporary fluctuations occur due to specific … life events. Set-point theory has come under increasing criticism in recent years, primarily due to unmistakable evidence …

If choices depend on the decision maker's mood, is the attempt to derive any consistency in choice doomed? In this …