title: Contrast effects or loss aversion? Comment on Usher and McClelland (2004).
abstract: M. Usher and J. L. McClelland (2004) recently proposed a new connectionist type of model to explain context effects on preferential choice including the similarity, attraction, and compromise effects. They compared their model with an earlier connectionist type model for these same effects proposed by R. Roe, J. R. Busemeyer, and J. T. Townsend (2001) and raised several new issues. The authors address these issues and point out the main theoretical differences between the 2 explanations for context effects.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. jbusemey@indiana.edu
authors.forename: Jerome R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Busemeyer
authors.forename: James T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Townsend
authors.forename: Adele
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Diederich
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Barkan
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data