1st Edition

Social Connectionism A Reader and Handbook for Simulations

By Frank Van Overwalle Copyright 2007
534 Pages
by Psychology Press

534 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

536 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

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... Read more

Van Overwalle, Part I: Basics.  Van Overwalle, Introduction and Overview.  Vanhoomissen & Van Overwalle, Connectionist Basics.  Van Overwalle & Vanhoomissen, Recurrent and Feedforward Connectionist Networks, and their Emergent Properties. Van Overwalle & Van Rooy, Part II: Causal Attribution.  Van Overwalle & Van Rooy, When More Observations are Better Than Less: A Connectionist Account of the Acquisition of Causal Strength. Read & Montoya, An Autoassociative Model of Causal Reasoning and Causal Learning: Reply to Van Overwalle's (1998) Critique of Read and Marcus-Newhall (1993).  Van Overwalle, When One Explanation is Enough: A Connectionist View on the Fundamental Attribution Bias. Van Overwalle, Part III: Person and Group Impression FormationSmith & DeCoster, Knowledge Acquisition, Accessibility, and Use in Person Perception and Stereotyping: Simulation With a Recurrent Connectionist Network. Van Overwalle & Labiouse, A Recurrent Connectionist Model of Person Impression Formation. Van Rooy, Van Overwalle, Vanhoomissen, Labiouse & French, A Recurrent Connectionist Model of Group Biases. Queller & Smith, Subtyping Versus Bookkeeping in Stereotype Learning and Change: Connectionist Simulations and Empirical Findings. Van Overwalle, Part IV: Attitudes.  Van Overwalle & Siebler, A Connectionist Model of Attitude Formation and Change. Appendix: FIT Manual

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Van Overwalle, Frank

"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