INTEGRATIVE THEORY OF SOCIAL PERCEPTION AND JUDGMENT

这是独立科学家奖（K02）的申请。申请人的直接目标是继续发展他在连接主义（或并行分布式处理）模型方面的知识和技能，并将这些模型应用于社会心理学。这项工作符合他的长期职业目标，即在社会心理学中建立心理表征和过程的综合理论。职业发展计划包括通过相关书籍、期刊和会议建立与联结主义模型相关的知识和技能；继续研究将连接主义模型应用于社会心理学主题的计算机模拟；提高社会心理学家对连接主义建模的可及性。这项工作将在普渡大学进行，这是一个非常支持性的培训环境，为众多具有相关专业知识的研究人员提供了机会。研究计划是继续发展和测试社会心理学的连接主义模型。这些模型的预测是通过计算机模拟精确而明确的，将与该领域现有研究的结果进行比较。当模型产生尚未经过经验检验的新预测时，将对这种预测进行新的实验室研究；已经有几个新预测的例子没有得到实证检验的证实。过去和目前的研究主要涉及社会图式和范例记忆、可及性、启发式-系统等双过程模型、刻板印象学习和改变、语言和自传式记忆、自我概念和其他知识表征的灵活性等方面。计划在这些领域和其他领域继续开展工作，包括态度、动机和情感-认知界面、社会互动和社会影响的表现。培训和研究的总体目标都是使用连接主义模型来产生对核心社会心理现象的新见解，将社会心理学纳入似乎通过连接主义模型的共同理论语言在所有心理学中建立起来的理论整合的新浪潮中。

This is a request for an Independent Scientist Award (K02). The applicant's immediate goals are to continue developing his knowledge and skills in connectionist (or parallel distributed processing) models in general, and applying those models within social psychology. This work fits within his long-term career goal of building integrative theory of mental representations and processes within social psychology. The career development plan involv3es building knowledge and skills related to connectionist models through relevant books, journals, and conferences; continuing to work with computer simulations of connectionist models applied to social psychological topics; and improving the accessibility of connectionist modeling for social psychologists in general. This work will take place at Purdue University, an extremely supportive training environment that offers access to numerous researchers with relevant expertise. The research plan is to continue developing and testing connectionist models with social psychology. The models' predictions, made precise and explicit by computer simulations, will be compared against results from existing studies in the field. When the models generate new predictions that have not yet been empirically tested, new laboratory studies of such predictions will be conducted; there are already several examples of new predictions that have not been confirmed by empirical test. Past and current research has related properties of connectionist models to memory for social schemas and exemplars, accessibility, heuristic- systematic and other related dual process models, stereotype learning and change, language and autobiographical memory, and flexibility of the self-concept and other knowledge representations. Planned work will continue in these areas and others including representation of attitudes, motivation and the affect-cognition interface, social interaction, and social influence. The overall goal of both training and research is to use connectionist models to generate new insights into core social psychological phenomena, incorporating social psychology within the new wave of theoretical integration that appears to be building across all of psychology through the common theoretical language of connectionist models.