NARRATIVES AND SOCIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING

描述(改编自申请人的摘要)：建议的研究是 对中介的认知过程的持续研究的一部分 利用信息来做出社会判断和决定。世界上大部分的 我们通过直接经验或从其他途径获得的社会知识 人物，是以叙事形式出现的。也就是说，它由口头和口头组成 时间上相关的事件的非语言编码序列。这项研究旨在 Be Proposal关注的是这种叙事的心理表征， 以及这些表示在构造后是如何在 理解新信息，进行推理和社交。 这项研究有几个目标。首先，它将确定以下因素的影响 先前存在的叙事表现形式，与 一般或特别是对自己，对新信息的理解 以及由它形成的表征的内容和结构。 其次，它将评估叙述在内存中被索引的方式 因此，决定几种选择中哪一种的因素 陈述很可能被检索并用于理解或 沟通。第三，将进行一系列研究，以确定 比较叙事中的异同的标准 人们构建了关于自己和他人的，并评估 在调查下列现象时应用这些标准的用处 叙事可能具有调停作用(例如，近距离冲突 关系、刻板印象等)。最后，初步研究将 评估叙事在两个具有社会核心重要性的领域的作用 信息处理，即(A)人印象的形成，和(B) 自我的心理表征。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): The proposed research is part of a continuing investigation of the cognitive processes that mediate the use of information to make social judgements and decisions. Much of the social knowledge we acquire, either through direct experience or from other persons, is in narrative form. That is, it consists of verbally and nonverbally coded sequences of temporally related events. The research to be proposed is concerned with the mental representation of such narratives, and with how these representations, once constructed, are used in comprehending new information, making inferences and social communication. The research has several objectives. First, it will identify the effects of preexisting narrative representations, pertaining either to people in general or to oneself in particular, the comprehension of new information and on the content and structure of representations that are formed from it. Second, it will evaluate the way in which narratives are indexed in memory and, therefore, the factors that determine which of several alternative representations is likely to be retrieved and used in comprehension or communication. Third, a series of studies will be conducted to establish criteria for comparing similarities and differences in narratives that people have constructed about themselves and others, and to evaluate the utility of applying these criteria in investigating phenomena in which narratives are likely to have a mediating role (e.g., conflict in close relationships, stereotyping, etc.). Finally, preliminary research will evaluate the role of narratives in two areas of central importance in social information processing, namely, (a) person impression formation, and (b) the mental representation of self.