Distinguishing between Perceptual and Cognitive "Groundings" for Consistency Theories
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 10 (2) , 165-174
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167284102001
Abstract
Abelson's (1983) analysis of the dangers involved in treating cognitive, social network, and perceptual-stimulus field-based inconsistency disturbances as equivalent is examined and extended into the epistemological realm. The present exposition focuses on three problems: (I) the utility of Abelson's basic perceptual-cognitive distinction for clarifying a range of problems within the realm of social cognition; (2) the implications of mapping tie preceptual-cognitive distinction on to a broader epistemological level of analysis involving a differentiation between rule-conforming and law-driven explanatory systems; and (3) the implications of the rule/law distinctions for a broader range of theoretical and research problems within social psychology.Keywords
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