Social Connectionism: A Reader and Handbook for Simulations - Hardcover

Van Overwalle, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184169665X ISBN 13: 9781841696652

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2007

Synopsis

Many of our thoughts and decisions occur without us being conscious of them taking place; connectionism attempts to reveal the internal hidden dynamics that drive the thoughts and actions of both individuals and groups. Connectionist modeling is a radically innovative approach to theorising in psychology, and more recently in the field of social psychology. The connectionist perspective interprets human cognition as a dynamic and adaptive system that learns from its own direct experiences or through indirect communication from others.

Social Connectionism offers an overview of the most recent theoretical developments of connectionist models in social psychology. The volume is divided into four sections, beginning with an introduction and overview of social connectionism. This is followed by chapters on causal attribution, person and group impression formation, and attitudes. Each chapter is followed by simulation exercises that can be carried out using the FIT simulation program; these guided exercises allow the reader to reproduce published results.

Social Connectionism will be invaluable to graduate students and researchers primarily in the field of social psychology, but also in cognitive psychology and connectionist modeling.

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Review:

"An excellent and timely overview of one of the most important theoretical developments in social cognition in the past years" - Gerd Bohner, University of Bielefeld, Germany

About this edition

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 184169665X
• ISBN 13: 9781841696652
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 534