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Posted by Jonah Fogel <jfogel@utk.edu> Alan, Thanks for that clarification. My personal preference is to not combine or aggregate maps at all. But for some purposes it may be allowable... especially, if the researcher is not interested in cognitive mapping for educational purposes (e.g. there is no ...

Posted by Jonah Fogel <jfogel@utk.edu> Along the same lines that Alan is thinking (if I understand his post correctly). Doyle, Trees, and Radzicki (1998) list a number of factors that need to be considered during elicitation and representation of schema (SD authors commonly refer to schema as 'menta...

Posted by Jonah Fogel <jfogel@utk.edu> Richard, You've hit on one of my favorite lessons from this literature. Schema are the heuristic devices we use to interpret, store, and infer meaning to information. For a group to 'learn by doing' it must have a group norm of openness and flexibility. We know...

Posted by Jonah Fogel <jfogel@utk.edu> Since there seems to be some interest in analyzing causal loop diagrams and cognitive mapping in general I thought we should start a new thread... Martin has mentioned a few papers that are very useful for understanding similarity between individuals' cognition...

Posted by Jonah Fogel <jfogel@utk.edu> In reference to Richard's post: I'm also trying to compare cognitive maps. In my case, I'm assessing the similarity between individuals' cognitive structures before and after a group model building workshop series. As Vennix (1996) points out, we don't have muc...