Why we should talk about option generation in decision-making research

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Kalis, Annemarie ^a   Kaiser, Stefan ^b   Mojzisch, Andreas ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action representation; Decision making; Goal; Option; Option generation; Plan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885363359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00555     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Adelman, L., Gualtieri, J., and Stanford, S. (1995). Examining the effect of causal focus on the option generation process: an experiment using protocol analysis. Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process. 61, 54-66. doi: 10.1006/obhd.1995.1005
2. Austin, J. T., and Vancouver, J. B. (1996). Goal constructs in psychology: structure, process, and content. Psychol. Bull. 120, 338-375. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.120.3.338
3. Botvinick, M. M., Niv, Y., and Barto, A. C. (2009). Hierarchically organized behavior and its neural foundations: a reinforcement learning perspective. Cognition 113, 262-280. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.08.011
4. Bratman, M. E. (1989). Intention and personal policies. Philos. Perspect. 3, 443-469. doi: 10.2307/2214277
5. Bratman, M. E. (1999). Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
6. Bratman, M. E., Israel, D. J., and Pollack, M. E. (1988). Plans and resource-bounded practical reasoning. Comput. Intell. 4, 349-355. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8640.1988.tb00284.x
7. Custers, R., and Aarts, H. (2010). The unconscious will: how the pursuit of goals operates outside of conscious awareness. Science 329, 47-50. doi: 10.1126/science.1188595
8. Damasio, A. R. (1999). The Feeling of What Happens. New York: Harcourt-Brace & Company.
9. David, N., Newen, A., and Vogeley, K. (2008). The "sense of agency" and its underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms. Conscious. Cogn. 17, 523-534. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.03.004
10. Deci, E. L., and Ryan, R. M. (1985). Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior. Berlin: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4899-2271-7
11. De Vignemont, F., and Fourneret, P. (2004). The sense of agency: a philosophical and empirical review of the. Conscious. Cogn. 13, 1-19. doi: 10.1016/S1053-8100(03)00022-9
12. Dietrich, A. (2004). The cognitive neuroscience of creativity. Psychon. Bull. Rev. 11, 1011-1026. doi: 10.3758/BF03196731
13. Ernst, M., and Paulus, M. P. (2005). Neurobiology of decision-making: a selective review from a neurocognitive and clinical perspective. Biol. Psychiatry 58, 597-604. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.06.004
14. Farrer, C., and Frith, C. D. (2002). Experiencing oneself vs another person as being the cause of an action: the neural correlates of the experience of agency. Neuroimage 15, 596-603. doi: 10.1006/nimg.2001.1009
15. Galotti, K. M. (2007). Decision structuring in important real-life choices. Psychol. Sci. 18, 320-325. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01898.x
16. Gettys, C. F., and Fisher, S. D. (1979). Hypothesis plausibility and hypothesis generation. Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process. 24, 93-110. doi: 10.1016/0030-5073(79)90018-7
17. Gibson, J. (1977). The Theory of Affordances. Perceiving, Acting, and Knowing: Toward an Ecological Psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
18. Gigerenzer, G., and Selten, R. (2002). Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
19. Goel, V. (2002). "Planning: neural and psychological," in Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Vol. 3, ed. L. Nadel (New York: Macmillan), 697-703.
20. Gollwitzer, P. M. (1990). "Action phases and mind-sets," in Handbook of Motivation and Cognition: Foundations of Social Behavior, Vol. 2, eds E. T. Higgins and R. M. Sorrentino (New York: Guilford Press), 53-92.
21. Grafton, S. T., and Hamilton, A. F. C. (2007). Evidence for a distributed hierarchy of action representation in the brain. Hum. Mov. Sci. 26, 590-616. doi: 10.1016/j.humov.2007.05.009
22. Guilford, J. P., Christensen, P. R., Merrifield, P. R., and Wilson, R. C. (1978). Alternate Uses: Manual of Instruction and Interpretation. Orange, CA: Sheridan Psychological Services. doi: 10.1037/0894-4105.7.4.519
23. Hassin, R., Aarts, H., Eitam, B., Custers, R., and Kleiman, T. (2008). "Nonconscious goal pursuit and the effortful control of behavior," in Oxford Handbook of Human Action, eds E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, and P. M. Gollwitzer (New York: Oxford University Press), 549-566
24. Heckhausen, H., and Gollwitzer, P. M. (1987). Thought contents and cognitive functioning in motivational versus volitional states of mind. Motiv. Emot. 11, 101-120. doi: 10.1007/BF00992338
25. Heckhausen, J., and Heckhausen, H. (eds). (2008). Motivation and Action. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
26. Higgins, E. T., and Trope, Y. (1990). "Activity engagement theory: implications of multiply identifiable input for intrinsic motivation," in Handbook of Motivation and Cognition: Foundations of Social Behavior, Vol. 2, eds E. T. Higgins and R. M. Sorrentino (New York: The Guilford Press), 229-264.
27. Johnson, J. G., and Raab, M. (2003). Take The First: option-generation and resulting choices. Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process. 91, 215-229. doi: 10.1016/S0749-5978(03)00027-X
28. Kaiser, S., Simon, J., Kalis, A., Schweizer, T., Tobler, P., and Mojzisch, A. (2013). The cognitive and neural basis of option generation and subsequent choice. Cogn. Affect. Behav. Neurosci. doi: 10.3758/s13415-013-0175-5 [Epub ahead of print].
29. Kalis, A., Mojzisch, A., Schweizer, T., and Kaiser, S. (2008). Weakness of will, akrasia and the neuropsychiatry of decision-making. Cogn. Affect. Behav. Neurosci. 8, 402-417. doi: 10.3758/CABN.8.4.402
30. Keller, L. R., and Ho, J. L. (1988). Decision problem structuring: generating options. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. 18, 715-728. doi: 10.1109/21.21599
31. Klein, G., Wolf, S., Militello, L., and Zsambok, C. (1995). Characteristics of skilled option generation in chess. Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process. 62, 63-69. doi: 10.1006/obhd.1995.1031
32. Kruglanski, A. W., and Kopetz, C. (2009). "What is so special (and nonspecial) about goals? A view from the cognitive perspective," in The Psychology of Goals, 1st Edn, eds G. B. Moskowitz and H. Grant (New York: The Guilford Press), 27-55.
33. Maani, K. E., and Maharaj, V. (2004). Links between systems thinking and complex decision making. Syst. Dyn. Rev. 20, 21-48. doi: 10.1002/sdr.281
34. Manoel, E. J., Basso, L., Correa, U. C., and Tani, G. (2002). Modularity and hierarchical organization of action programs in human acquisition of graphic skills. Neurosci. Lett. 335, 83-86. doi: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01102-3
35. McCrae, R. R. (1996). Social consequences of experiential openness. Psychol. Bull. 120, 323-337. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.120.3.323
36. McCrae, R. R., and John, O. P. (1992). An introduction to the Five-Factor Model and its applications. J. Pers. 60, 175-215. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1992.tb00970.x
37. Mednick, S. A., and Mednick, M. T. (1967). Examiner's Manual, Remote Associates Test: College and Adult Forms 1 and 2. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
38. Michaels, C. F. (2003). Affordances: four points of debate. Ecol. Psychol. 15, 135-148. doi: 10.1207/S15326969ECO1502_3
39. Michaels, C. F., and Carello, C. (1981). Direct Perception. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
40. Norman, D. A. (1999). Affordance, conventions, and design. Interactions 6, 38-43. doi: 10.1145/301153.301168
41. Pollack, M. E. (1990). "Plans as complex mental attitudes," in Intentions in Communication, eds P. R. Cohen, J. L. Morgan, and M. E. Pollack (Bradford Book) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 77-104.
42. Raab, M., de Oliveira, R. F., and Heinen, T. (2009). How do people perceive and generate options? Prog. Brain Res. 174, 49-59. doi: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)01305-3
43. Raab, M., and Johnson, J. G. (2007). Expertise-based differences in search and option-generation strategies. J. Exp. Psychol. Appl. 13, 158. doi: 10.1037/1076-898X.13.3.158
44. Schultheiss, O. C., and Brunstein, J. C. (2010). Implicit Motives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335156.001.0001
45. Shallice, T. (1982). Specific impairments of planning. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 298, 199-209. doi: 10.1098/rstb.1982.0082
46. Smaldino, P., and Richerson, P. (2012). The origins of options. Front. Neurosci. 6:50. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00050
47. Smith, M. N. (2010). Practical imagination and its limits. Philos. Imprint 10, 1-20.
48. Sprenger, A., and Dougherty, M. R. (2012). Generating and evaluating options for decision making: the impact of sequentially presented evidence. J. Exp. Psychol. 38, 550-575. doi: 10.1037/a0026036
49. Sternberg, R. J. (1999). Handbook of Creativity. New York: Cambridge University Press.
50. Stroop, J. R. (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. J. Exp. Psychol. 18, 643-662. doi: 10.1037/h0054651
51. Sutton, R. S., Precup, D., and Singh, S. (1999). Between MDPs and semi-MDPs: a framework for temporal abstraction in reinforcement learning. Artif. Intell. 112, 181-211. doi: 10.1016/S0004-3702(99)00052-1
52. Vroom, V. H. (1964). Work and Motivation. New York: Wiley.
53. Ward, P., Suss, J., Eccles, D. W., Williams, A. M., and Harris, K. R. (2011). Skill-based differences in option generation in a complex task: a verbal protocol analysis. Cogn. Process. 12, 289-300. doi: 10.1007/s10339-011-0397-9
54. Ward, T. B. (2007). Creative cognition as a window on creativity. Methods 42, 28-37. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2006.12.002
55. Woll, S. (2002). The Value and Appeal of Research on Everyday Thought. Everyday Thinking: Memory, Reasoning, and Judgment in the Real World. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.