A handbook of process tracing methods for decision research: a critical review and user's guide

Table of Contents:



Part I: Methods for Tracing Information Acquisition



1 Visiting the Decision Factory: Observing Cognition with MouselabWEB and Other Information Acquisition Methods;

2 Eye Fixations as a Process Trace;

3 Determining the Information that Participants Need: Methods of Active Information Search;



Part II: Methods for Tracing Information Integration and Evaluation.



4 Thinking Aloud Protocols: Concurrent Verbalizations of Thinking during Performance on Tasks Involving Decision Making

5 Verbal Data and Decision Process Analysis;



Part III: Methods for Tracing Physiological, Neurological, and Other Concomitants of Cognitive Processes;



6 Analyzing Response Times to Understand Decision Processes;

7 Using Skin Conductance in Judgment and Decision Making Research;

8 Pupil Dilation and Eye Tracking;

9 Probing the Decisional Brain with rTMS and tDCS

This handbook provides a critical review and user’s guide to conducting and reporting process tracing studies of decision making. Each chapter covers a specific method that is presented and reviewed by authors who are experts in the method’s application to decision research. The book ultimately illustrates and presents a multi-method approach and is essential reading for graduate students and researchers wishing to undertake such studies on decision making.


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