Book Review: Stage and structure: Reopening the debate

Vangeert, P

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“…With the surge in intensive longitudinal studies in the social and behavioral sciences, including personality research (e.g., Conner et al, 2009), researchers have become increasingly interested in examining their phenomenona as dynamic processes (or, dynamical systems). A dynamical system is a set of entities that evolve in time by conforming to specific rules or patterns (van Geert, 2018). One key feature of dynamical systems theory that is of particular importance to personality researchers is that it links the micro-level behaviors in real-time ("synchronic" processes, such as daily emotional experiences) to more macro-level lifetime growth ("diachronic" processes, such as the development of personality traits) (Thelen & Smith, 2007).…”

Section: Translating Psychological Verbal Theories Into Formal Testab...mentioning

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Translating psychological verbal theories into formal models of change with differential equations

Chen,

Batra,

Beck

et al. 2023

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Characterizing psychological processes as dynamical systems has become a common practice in psychology. Most often, psychological theories are expressed in verbal terms and then interpreted by researchers in their operationalization. In contrast, theories can also be expressed in mathematical or computational terms (i.e., formal theories). However, translating verbal theories of dynamical systems into formal theories, especially those represented by differential equations (DEs), often requires knowledge of physics and mathematics beyond the standard training received by psychologists. In this article, we seek to provide a roadmap for researchers who wish to build a formal theory expressed in DEs from a verbal theory using a running example of neuroticism, and end with a discussion on caveats of formalizing using DE models.

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Section: Translating Psychological Verbal Theories Into Formal Testab...mentioning

confidence: 99%