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Connectionist models of social reasoning and social behavior / edited by Stephen J. Read, Lynn C. Miller.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, Pub., 1998.Description: xxiv, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0805822151 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 080582216X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM 251 C51
Contents:
1. Making Sense of People: Coherence Mechanisms / Paul Thagard and Ziva Kunda -- 2. On the Dynamic Construction of Meaning: An Interactive Activation and Competition Model of Social Perception / Stephen J. Read and Lynn C. Miller -- 3. The Dynamics of Group Impression Formation: The Tensor Product Model of Exemplar-Based Social Category Learning / Yoshihisa Kashima, Jodie Woolcock and Deborah King -- 4. Person Perception and Stereotyping: Simulation Using Distributed Representations in a Recurrent Connectionist Network / Eliot R. Smith and James DeCoster -- 5. A Connectionist Approach to Causal Attribution / Frank Van Overwalle and Dirk Van Rooy -- 6. Personality as a Stable Cognitive-Affective Activation Network: Characteristic Patterns of Behavior Variation Emerge From a Stable Personality Structure / Yuichi Shoda and Walter Mischel -- 7. The Consonance Model of Dissonance Reduction / Thomas R. Shultz and Mark R. Lepper --
8. Toward an Integration of the Social and the Scientific: Observing, Modeling, and Promoting the Explanatory Coherence of Reasoning / Michael Ranney and Patricia Schank -- 9. Toward Computational Social Psychology: Cellular Automata and Neural Network Models of Interpersonal Dynamics / Andrzej Nowak and Robin R. Vallacher -- 10. Attitudes, Beliefs, and Other Minds: Shared Representations in Self-Organizing Systems / J. Richard Eiser, Mark J. A. Claessen and Jonathan J. Loose.
Summary: This book, the first to apply neural network models to social phenomena, brings together various approaches by social psychologists to connectionist models, allowing readers to appreciate the breadth of these approaches, as well as the theoretical commonality of many of these models.Summary: In chapters dealing with the learning and application of categories and stereotypes, causal reasoning, social explanation, person perception, personality and social behavior, classic dissonance phenomena, belief change, and the coherence of large-scale belief systems, there will be something in this book for every social psychologist.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Making Sense of People: Coherence Mechanisms / Paul Thagard and Ziva Kunda -- 2. On the Dynamic Construction of Meaning: An Interactive Activation and Competition Model of Social Perception / Stephen J. Read and Lynn C. Miller -- 3. The Dynamics of Group Impression Formation: The Tensor Product Model of Exemplar-Based Social Category Learning / Yoshihisa Kashima, Jodie Woolcock and Deborah King -- 4. Person Perception and Stereotyping: Simulation Using Distributed Representations in a Recurrent Connectionist Network / Eliot R. Smith and James DeCoster -- 5. A Connectionist Approach to Causal Attribution / Frank Van Overwalle and Dirk Van Rooy -- 6. Personality as a Stable Cognitive-Affective Activation Network: Characteristic Patterns of Behavior Variation Emerge From a Stable Personality Structure / Yuichi Shoda and Walter Mischel -- 7. The Consonance Model of Dissonance Reduction / Thomas R. Shultz and Mark R. Lepper --

8. Toward an Integration of the Social and the Scientific: Observing, Modeling, and Promoting the Explanatory Coherence of Reasoning / Michael Ranney and Patricia Schank -- 9. Toward Computational Social Psychology: Cellular Automata and Neural Network Models of Interpersonal Dynamics / Andrzej Nowak and Robin R. Vallacher -- 10. Attitudes, Beliefs, and Other Minds: Shared Representations in Self-Organizing Systems / J. Richard Eiser, Mark J. A. Claessen and Jonathan J. Loose.

This book, the first to apply neural network models to social phenomena, brings together various approaches by social psychologists to connectionist models, allowing readers to appreciate the breadth of these approaches, as well as the theoretical commonality of many of these models.

In chapters dealing with the learning and application of categories and stereotypes, causal reasoning, social explanation, person perception, personality and social behavior, classic dissonance phenomena, belief change, and the coherence of large-scale belief systems, there will be something in this book for every social psychologist.

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