ABSTRACT
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
chapter 3|56 pages
From Natural Language Understanding to Case-Based Reasoning and Beyond
A Perspective on the Cognitive Model That Ties It All Together
chapter 6|34 pages
The Psychology of Strongly Held Beliefs
Theories of Ideological Structure and Individual Attachment
chapter 7|27 pages
Dissonance and Balance in Belief Systems
The Promise of Parallel Constraint Satisfaction Processes and Connectionist Modeling Approaches
