Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making: Psycho-Logic in Honor of Bob Abelson

by Schank; Roger C.

• ISBN13: 9780805814569
• ISBN10: 0805814566
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-05-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

It is not unusual for a festschrift to include offerings from several areas of study, but it is highly unusual for those areas to cross disciplinary lines. This book, in doing just that, is a testimony to Bob Abelson's impact on the disciplines of social psychology, artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and the applied areas of political psychology and decision-making. The contributors demonstrate that their association with Abelson, whether as students or colleagues, has resulted in an impressive intellectual cross-fertilization.

Table of Contents

Preface
Goal-Based Scenarios	p. 1
The Illusion of Calculated Decisions	p. 33
From Natural Language Understanding to Case-Based Reasoning and Beyond: A Perspective on the Cognitive Model That Ties It All Together	p. 55
Opportunistic Memory: "Be Prepared"	p. 111
Cognition, Computers, and Car Bombs: How Yale Prepared Me for the 1990s	p. 143
The Psychology of Strongly Held Beliefs: Theories of Ideological Structure and Individual Attachment	p. 175
Dissonance and Balance in Belief Systems: The Promise of Parallel Constraint Satisfaction Processes and Connectionist Modeling Approaches	p. 209
"Hot" Versus "Cold" Cognition: An Abelsonian Voyage	p. 237
Reason and Emotion in American Political Life	p. 277
Facial Maturity and Political Prospects: Persuasive, Culpable, and Powerful Faces	p. 315
The Persistence of Persuasion	p. 347
Discourse, Probability, and Inference	p. 363
An Exploration of Temporality in Human Behavior	p. 389
Author Index	p. 413
Subject Index	p. 423
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