Toward a Psychology of Surrogate Decision Making

Abstract

In everyday life, many of the decisions that we make are made on behalf of other people. A growing body of research suggests that we often, but not always, make different decisions on behalf of other people than the other person would choose. This is problematic in the practical case of legally designated surrogate decision makers, who may not meet the substituted judgment standard. Here, we review evidence from studies of surrogate decision making and examine the extent to which surrogate decision making accurately predicts the recipient’s wishes, or if it is an incomplete or distorted application of the surrogate’s own decision-making processes. We find no existing domain-general model of surrogate decision making. We propose a framework by which surrogate decision making can be assessed and a novel domain-general theory as a unifying explanatory concept for surrogate decisions.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615598508
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences
Additional Information: © Sage 2015. The final publication is available via Sage at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691615598508
Uncontrolled Keywords: affect,emotion,family,health,interpersonal relations,judgment,reasoning,thinking,Psychology(all)
Publication ISSN: 1745-6916
Last Modified: 12 Feb 2024 08:20
Date Deposited: 15 Oct 2018 10:23
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2015-11-01
Authors: Tunney, Richard J. (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-4673-757X)
Ziegler, Fenja V.

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