EXEMPLAR BASED PROCESSING IN SOCIAL JUDGEMENT

申请者的主要目标是发展一种综合的理论 社会基础的认知表征和过程 判断和推理、人的感知和刻板印象。这些 话题与心理健康有几个方面的关系。例如，刻板印象 有助于具体的社会条件(如偏见和 歧视)会影响许多人的心理健康，而且是负面的 刻板印象也会影响人们对精神病患者的反应。三 理论和实证工作，共涉及18项研究， 这些建议将有助于实现这一总体目标。社交- 心理实验室研究将调查示范效应对 社会分类和判断，澄清影响 特定个体的表征和一般知识 关于社会团体。实验室研究还将重点放在认知方面 涉及社会推理和判断的过程，包括方式 它们会随着使用而改变并提高效率。最后，新实验室 将对现有数据集进行研究和计算机模拟 用于开发一种新的连接式或神经网络 该模型将整合这两个研究领域。通过 证明从理论上讲，一个过程可以解释几个 以前被孤立地考虑的现象的类别， 这一模型应该既能激发新的实证研究，又能产生 对人的感知和刻板印象过程的新见解 对社会中的心理健康很重要。

The applicant's major objective is to develop an integrative theory of the cognitive representations and processes that underlie social judgement and inference, person perception, and stereotyping. These topics relate to mental health in several ways. For example, stereotypes contribute to concrete social conditions (such as prejudice and discrimination) that affect many people's mental health, and negative stereotypes also affect people's reactions to the mentally ill. Three lines of theoretical and empirical work, involving a total of 18 studies, are proposed that will contribute to this general objective. Social- psychological laboratory studies will investigate exemplar effects on social categorization and judgment, clarifying the impact of representations of specific individuals as well as general knowledge about social groups. Laboratory research will also focus on the cognitive processes involved in social inference and judgment, including the way they change and increase in efficiency with use. Finally, new laboratory studies as well as computer simulations of existing data sets will be employed in the development of a new connectionist or neural-network model that will integrate both of these line of research. By demonstrating that a single process can theoretically account for several classes of phenomena that have previously been considered in isolation, this model should both inspire new empirical research and also generate new insights into person-perception and stereotyping processes that are important for mental health in society.