{"pk":31758,"title":"Explanatory Coherence in the Construction of Mental Models of Others","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A unified model of social perception, integrating\ncausal reasoning and impression formation (Miller &\nRead, 1991), provides an account of h o w people ar-\nrive at coherent representations of others and explain\ntheir behavicM'. T h e model integrates work on a\nknowledge structure approach (Schank & Abelson,\n1977) with Kintsch's (1988) construction-integration\nmodel and Thagard's (1989) model of explanatory\ncoherence. W e explore two issues in social percep-\ntion. First, w e show h o w the model can be used to\nexplain trait inferences, where traits are treated as\nframes, composed of goals, plans, resources and\nbeliefs. Second, w e examine h o w people might com-\nbine inconsistent traits to arrive at a coherent model\nof another, an example of conceptual combination.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f4261zr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Stephen","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Read","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California Los Angeles","department":""},{"first_name":"Lynn","middle_name":"Carol","last_name":"Miller","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California Los Angeles","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31758/galley/22826/download/"}]}