Connectionist Simulation of Attitude Learning: Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Positive and Negative Evaluations

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1221-1235

  Eiser, J Richard ^a,b   Fazio, Russell H ^c   Stafford, Tom ^a   Prescott, Tony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Psychology   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Attitude; Connectionism; Learning; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTITUDE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUNGER; LEARNING; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW;

ATTITUDE; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; HUNGER; LEARNING; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0141542715     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167203254605     Document Type: Review

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