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Quantifying emotionally grounded discursive knowledge with cognitive-affective maps

  • Belief systems matter for all kinds of human social interaction. People have individual cognitions and feelings concerning processes in their environment, which is why they may evaluate them differently. Belief systems can be visualized with cognitive-affective maps (CAMs; as reported by Thagard (in: McGregor (ed) EMPATHICA: A computer support system with visual representations for cognitive-affective mapping, AAAI Press, CA, 2010)). However, it is unclear whether CAMs can be constructed in an intersubjective way by different researchers attempting to map the beliefs of a third party based on qualitative text data. To scrutinize this question, we combined qualitative strategies and quantitative methods of text and network analysis in a case study examining belief networks about participation. Our data set consists of 10 sets of two empirical CAMs: the first CAM was created based on participants’ freely associating concepts related to participation in education (N = 10), the second one was created based on given text data which theBelief systems matter for all kinds of human social interaction. People have individual cognitions and feelings concerning processes in their environment, which is why they may evaluate them differently. Belief systems can be visualized with cognitive-affective maps (CAMs; as reported by Thagard (in: McGregor (ed) EMPATHICA: A computer support system with visual representations for cognitive-affective mapping, AAAI Press, CA, 2010)). However, it is unclear whether CAMs can be constructed in an intersubjective way by different researchers attempting to map the beliefs of a third party based on qualitative text data. To scrutinize this question, we combined qualitative strategies and quantitative methods of text and network analysis in a case study examining belief networks about participation. Our data set consists of 10 sets of two empirical CAMs: the first CAM was created based on participants’ freely associating concepts related to participation in education (N = 10), the second one was created based on given text data which the participants represented as a CAM following a standardized instruction manual (N = 10). Both CAM-types were compared along three dimensions of similarity (network similarity, concept association similarity, affective similarity). On all dimensions of similarity, there was substantially higher intersubjective agreement in the text-based CAMs than in the free CAMs, supporting the viability of cognitive affective mapping as an intersubjective research method for studying the emotional coherence of belief systems and discursive knowledge. In addition, this study highlights the potential for identifying group-level differences based on how participants associate concepts.zeige mehrzeige weniger

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Verfasserangaben:Jasmin LuthardtGND, Jonathan Howard MorganORCiD, Inka BormannORCiDGND, Tobias SchröderORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01195-7
ISSN:1573-7845
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch):Quality & Quantity - International Journal of Methodology
Verlag:Springer Science + Business Media B.V
Verlagsort:Dordrecht
Dokumentart:Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Sprache:Englisch
Datum der Veröffentlichung (online):20.10.2021
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung:2021
Datum der Freischaltung:28.10.2021
Jahrgang:56
Ausgabe / Heft:3
Erste Seite:1557
Letzte Seite:1595
Fachbereiche und Zentrale Einrichtungen:Forschungs- und An-Institute / Inst. für angewandte Forschung Urbane Zukunft (IaF)
DDC-Klassifikation:100 Philosophie und Psychologie / 150 Psychologie
300 Sozialwissenschaften / 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Lizenz (Deutsch):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
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