Abstract
Cognitive mapping has been a valuable tool in understanding how individuals view their external environment. It has been used successfully to investigate crisis decision making, juror decision making, and international negotiation, and may find further use as a support tool in negotiation and mediation. This article presents a method for enhanced cognitive mapping - WorldView, which uses the symbol-based formalism of semantic networks. WorldView provides important advantages over more traditional cognitive mapping and assists in the systematic study of belief system content and decision process. WorldView eliminates constraints on represented relationships and captures more information than previous content analysis systems for belief structures, provides aggregation over texts or subject responses, provides a synonym facility for collapsing similar concepts, incorporates structural and comparative measures for analysis, and constructs manipulate cognitive maps that provide a basis for process models of belief change and decision making.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 395-414 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Journal of Conflict Resolution |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 1996 |
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