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Structural Dynamics of Cognition: From Consistency Theories to Constraint Satisfaction
Dan Simon
USC Gould School of Law, USC Department of Psychology
Keith J. Holyoak
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Psychology
2002
Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 6, No. 6, 2002
Abstract:
We first offer a brief review of the history of Cognitive Consistency Theories in social psychology. After promising beginnings as an outgrowth of Gestalt theory, early consistency theories failed to yield a general account of the mechanisms by which attitudes are formed and decisions are made. However, over the past decade the principles underlying consistency theories have been revived in the form of connectionist models of constraint satisfaction. We then review experimental work on complex legal decision making that illustrates how constraint-satisfaction mechanisms can cause coherence shifts, thereby transforming ambiguous imputs into coherent decisions.
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Date posted: December 13, 2002
Suggested CitationSimon, Dan and Holyoak, Keith J., Structural Dynamics of Cognition: From Consistency Theories to Constraint Satisfaction (2002). Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 6, No. 6, 2002. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=318722 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.318722
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