Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning and Social Behavior

by Read, Stephen J.; Miller, Lynn C.

• ISBN13: 9780805822168
• ISBN10: 080582216X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pr

Summary

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 show how these kinds of models provide insight into many classic issues. Many chapters hint that this approach provides the seeds of a theoretical integration that the field has lacked. Each chapter discusses an explicit connectionist model of a central problem in social psychology. Since many of the contributors either use a standard architecture or provide a computer program, interested readers, with a little work, should be able to implement their own variations of models. Chapters are devoted to the following topics and models: * the learning and application of social categories and stereotypes; * causal reasoning, social explanation, and person perception; * personality and social behavior; * classic dissonance phenomena; and * belief change and the coherence of large scale belief systems.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
References	p. xxii
Person Perception And Impression Formation	p. 1
Making Sense of People: Coherence Mechanisms	p. 3
References	p. 23
on the Dynamic Construction of Meaning: an Interactive Activation and Competition Model of Social Perception	p. 27
Conclusion	p. 64
Conclusion	p. 65
Stereotyping And Social Categorization	p. 69
the Dynamics of Group Impression Formation: the Tensor Product Model of Exemplar-Based Social Category Learning	p. 71
References	p. 102
Appendix 1	p. 106
Appendix 2	p. 107
Appendix 2	p. 109
Person Perception and Stereotyping: Simulation Using Distributed Representations in a Recurrent Connectionist Network	p. 111
Acknowledgments	p. 137
Acknowledgments	p. 137
Causal Reasoning	p. 141
a Connectionist Approach to Causal Attribution	p. 143
References	p. 169
Acknowledgments	p. 169
Personality And Behavior	p. 173
Personality as a Stable Cognitive-Affective Activation Network: Characteristic Patterns of Behavior Variation Emerge from a Stable Personality Structure	p. 175
Acknowledgments	p. 204
References	p. 204
Attitudes And Beliefs	p. 209
the Consonance Model of Dissonance Reduction	p. 211
References	p. 242
Toward an Integration of the Social and the Scientific: Observing, Modeling, and Promoting the Explanatory Coherence of Reasoning	p. 245
Acknowledgments	p. 271
References	p. 271
Social Influence And Group Interaction	p. 275
Toward Computational Social Psychology: Cellular Automata and Neural Network Models of Interpersonal Dynamics	p. 277
Acknowledgments	p. 308
Attitude, Beliefs, and Other Minds: Shared Representations in Self-Organizing Systems	p. 313
References	p. 353
Author Index	p. 355
Subject Index	p. 365
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