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

✍ Scribed by Roger C. Schank (editor), Ellen Langer (editor)

• Publisher: Psychology Press / Routledge
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 437
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Cover
Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making: Psycho-Logic in Honor of Bob Abelson
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Goal-Based Scenarios
Chapter 2 The Illusion of Calculated Decisions
Chapter 3 From Natural Language Understanding to Case-Based Reasoning and Beyond: A Perspective on the Cognitive Model That Ties It All Together
Chapter 4 Opportunistic Memory: "Be Prepared"
Chapter 5 Cognition, Computers, and Car Bombs: How Yale Prepared Me for the 1990s
Chapter 6 The Psychology of Strongly Held Beliefs: Theories of Ideological Structure and Individual Attachment
Chapter 7 Dissonance and Balance in Belief Systems: The Promise of Parallel Constraint Satisfaction Processes and Connectionist Modeling Approaches
Chapter 8 "Hot" Versus "Cold" Cognition: An Abelsonian Voyage
Chapter 9 Reason and Emotion in American Political Life
Chapter 10 Facial Maturity and Political Prospects: Persuasive, Culpable, and Powerful Faces
Chapter 11 The Persistence of Persuasion
Chapter 12 Discourse, Probability, and Inference
Chapter 13 An Exploration of Temporality in Human Behavior
Author Index
Subject Index