Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning and Social Behavior

ISBN 10: 080582216X / ISBN 13: 9780805822168

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 1998

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pp. 400.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning and Social Behavior
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080582216X
• ISBN 13: 9780805822168
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Stephen John Read, Lynn C. Miller