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Distinguishing between Perceptual and Cognitive "Groundings" for Consistency Theories

Epistemological Implications

Reuben M. Baron

University of Connecticut

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.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 2, 165-174 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167284102001
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