中国科学院心理研究所机构知识库

著名心理学家Ward Edwards对行为决策的学科形成与理论发展作出了巨大贡献。文章简要介绍了Edwards的生平,以主观期望效用模型和贝叶斯决策为核心回顾了Edwards的决策理论、主要成就及其对行为决策研究的学术贡献。文章并从行为决策领域的研究、科普、应用及人才培养等方面总结了中国行为决策研究的发展历程,以及Edwards的学术思想对中国行为决策研究的主要影响。文章展望了行为决策研究的前景,并呼吁更多的中国心理学工作者投身于行为决策研究。

Ward Edwards,the father of behavioral decision theory,integrated economics and psychology,and pioneered the descriptive theories of risky decision making.He also laid the groundwork for early research on Bayesian inference.Later he became a leader in the development and promotion of decision analysis.Beginning with a brief retrospect of Edwards life,this paper reviews Edwards contributions in the field of descriptive theory of risky decision making and his achievements in behavioral decision making,which ...