00100	.F
00200	PREFACE
00300		Something  "artificial"  is   manmade.   Someone   "paranoid"
00400	believes others have malevolent intentions towards him.
00500		A computer simulation  of  paranoid  processes  involves  the
00600	construction  and  testing of a complex symbolic model. To understand
00700	such a model and its roles  it  is  necessary  to  grasp  the  symbol
00800	processing viewpoint. I have tried to spell out sufficient background
00900	knowledge for this viewpoint to aid the interested scientific reader.
01000		I am indebted to co-workers who collaborated with me  in  the
01100	model's  development. Sylvia Weber Russell wrote the original version
01200	of the program.  Franklin Dennis Hilf was primarily  responsible  for
01300	the  validation studies. Helena Kraemer assisted in the design of the
01400	experiments and in the statistical methods used.