Professor of Social Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061
Phone: (213) 740-2291
E-mail:
Read@rcf.usc.edu

 

 

Selected Publications

 

 

University of Southern California

 

 
|Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning Group| Center for the Social Uses of Interactive Media|Selected Publications|
 

 


Read, S. J. (1987). Constructing causal scenarios: A knowledge structure approach to causal reasoning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 288-302.

Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (1989) Inter-personalism: Toward a goal-based theory of persons in relationships. In L. Pervin (Ed.), Goal concepts in personality and social psychology (pp. 413-472). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Read, S. J., Jones, D. K., & Miller, L. C. (1990). Traits as goal-based categories: The importance of goals in the coherence of dispositional categories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 1048-1061.

Miller, L. C., & Read, S. J. (1991).On the coherence of mental models of persons and relationships: A knowledge structure approach. In G. J. O. Fletcher & F. Fincham (Eds.), Cognition in Close Relationships. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Read, S. J., & Cesa, I. L. (1991). This reminds me of the time when...: Reminding in explanation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 27, 1-25.

Read, S. J., & Marcus-Newhall, A. R. (1993). Explanatory coherence in social explanations: A parallel distributed processing account. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 429-447.

Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (1993). Rapist or "regular guy": Explanatory coherence in the construction of mental models of others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 19, 526-540.

Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (1994). Dissonance and Balance in belief systems: The promise of parallel constraint satisfaction processes and connectionist modeling approaches. In R. C. Schank & E. J. Langer (Eds.), Beliefs, reasoning, and decision making: Psycho-logic in honor of Bob Abelson (pp. 209-235). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Vanman, E. J., Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (1995). Gestalt Principles and parallel constraint satisfaction processes: The parallels. In J. D. Moore & J. F. Lehman (Eds.). Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 766-770). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Read, S. J., Vanman, E. J., & Miller, L. C. (1997). Connectionism and Gestalt principles: (Re)Introducing Cognitive Dynamics to Social Psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1, 26-53.

Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (1998). Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning and Social Behavior. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (1998). On the dynamic construction of meaning: An interactive activation and competition model of social perception. In S. J. Read & L. C. Miller (Eds.). Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning and Social Behavior. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Montoya, J. A., & Read, S. J. (1998).
A constraint satisfaction model of the correspondence bias: The role of accessibility and applicability of explanations. In The Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Read, S. J., & Montoya, J. A. (1999).
An autoassociative model of causal learning and causal reasoning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 728-742.

Chulef, A., Read, S. J., & Walsh, D. A. (2001). A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Human Goals. Motivation and Emotion, 25, 191-232.

Vallacher, R. R., Read, S. J., & Nowak, A. (2002). The Dynamical Perspective in Personality and Social Psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review.4, 264-273.

Vallacher, R. R., Read, S. J., & Nowak, A. (Eds.)(2002). The Dynamical Perspective in Personality and Social Psychology. Special issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review. 6(4).

Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (2002).
Virtual Personalities: A Neural Network Model of Personality. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 6, 357-369.

Read, S. J., & Urada, D. (2003).
A neural network model of the outgroup homogeneity effect. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 7, 146-169.

Read, S. J., Snow, C. J. Snow, & Simon, D. (2003).
Constraint satisfaction processes in social reasoning. In The Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference.

Brownstein, A., Read, S. J., & Simon, D. (2004).
Effects of Individual Expertise and Task Importance on Pre-decision Reevaluation of Alternatives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 30, 891-904

Simon, D., Snow, C. & Read, S. J. (2004).
The Redux of Cognitive Consistency Theories: Evidence Judgments by Constraint Satisfaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 86, 814-837.

Kim, D., & Read, S. J. (2004).
Asymmetries in the Bidirectional Associative Strengths Between Events in Cue Competition for Causes and Effects. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner & T. Regier (Eds). Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society August 4-7, 2004 Chicago, Illinois. (pp. 690-695). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Brownstein, A. L., Read, S. J., Simon, D. (2004).
Coherence in Perceptions of a Romantic Relationship. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner & T. Regier (Eds). Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society August 4-7, 2004 Chicago, Illinois. (pp. 162-167). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Marsella, S. C., Pynadath, D. V., & Read, S. J. (2004, June).
PsychSim: Agent-based modeling of social interactions and influence. Paper in the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Jones, D. K., & Read, S. J. (2005).
Expert versus Novice differences in the representation of political knowledge. Discourse Processes, 39, 45-80.

Read, S. J., Nwosu, M. E., Miller, L. C., Appleby, P. R., Rothspan, S. Lauren, A., & Putcha A. (accepted, pending revision). Interactive Video Reduces Risky Sexual Behavior among Men who have Sex with Men.

Zachary, W., LeMentec, J-C., Miller, L. C., Read, S. J., & Thomas-Meyers, G. (2005).
Steps toward a Personality-based Architecture for Cognition. Paper in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Behavioral Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Los Angeles, CA.

Zachary, W., Le Mentec, J.-C.. Miller, L.C., Read, S. J., & Thomas-Meyers, G. (2005).
Human behavioral representations with realistic personality and cultural characteristics. Paper in the Proceedings of the Tenth International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, McLean, VA.

Miller, L.C., & Read, S. J. (in press) Virtual Sex: Creating environments for reducing risky sex. In K. Portney & S. Cohen. Virtual Decisions: Digital simulations for teaching reasoning in the social sciences and humanities. Mahway, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (in press).
Explanatory coherence and goal-based knowledge structures in making dispositional inferences. In B. Malle & S. Hodges. Other Minds. New York: Guilford Press.

 

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