ISBN:
9780805822151
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (397 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning and Social Behavior
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Although neural network models have had a dramatic impact on the cognitive and brain sciences, social psychology has remained largely unaffected by this intellectual explosion. The first to apply neural network models to social phenomena, this book includes chapters by nearly all of the individuals currently working in this area. Bringing these various approaches together in one place, it allows readers to appreciate the breadth of these approaches, as well as the theoretical commonality of many of these models. The contributors address a number of central issues in social psychology and sho
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; PART I: PERSON PERCEPTION AND IMPRESSION FORMATION; 1 Making Sense of People: Coherence Mechanisms; 2 On the Dynamic Construction of Meaning: An Interactive Activation and Competition Model of Social Perception; PART II: STEREOTYPING AND SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION; 3 The Dynamics of Group Impression Formation: The Tensor Product Model of Exemplar-Based Social Category Learning; 4 Person Perception and Stereotyping: Simulation Using Distributed Representations in a Recurrent Connectionist Network; PART III: CAUSAL REASONING
Description / Table of Contents:
5 A Connectionist Approach to Causal AttributionPART IV: PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOR; 6 Personality as a Stable Cognitive-Affective Activation Network: Characteristic Patterns of Behavior Variation Emerge From a Stable Personality Structure; PART V: ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS; 7 The Consonance Model of Dissonance Reduction; 8 Toward an Integration of the Social and the Scientific: Observing, Modeling, and Promoting the Explanatory Coherence of Reasoning; PART VI: SOCIAL INFLUENCE AND GROUP INTERACTION
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Toward Computational Social Psychology: Cellular Automata and Neural Network Models of Interpersonal Dynamics10 Attitudes, Beliefs, and Other Minds: Shared Representations in Self-Organizing Systems; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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