Interaction-Dominant Dynamics, Timescale Enslavement, and The Emergence of Social Behavior

Eiler, Brian A.; Kallen, Rachel W.; Richardson, Michael J.

doi:10.4324/9781315173726-6

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“…Given that this issue was found to be the most polarizing, it could also be the case that at some threshold the more generalized polarization process (i.e., extremity/assimilation) becomes less influential and other (as yet unknown) issues become more salient. This speculation would be in line with more general principles of interaction dominant systems (of which networks are a canonical example) in which processes that operate along different time scales exert differential influence (see Eiler, Kallen, & Richardson, for a review).…”

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confidence: 64%

The Effect of Group Polarization on Opposition to Donald Trump

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Eiler

et al. 2019

Political Psychology

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Using focus groups, we examined support and opposition for Donald Trump prior to the 2016 presidential election. When ingroup members participate in discussion, this conversation alone typically strengthens and intensifies members’ initial attitudes. We used a pre‐ to post‐focus‐group questionnaire to assess attitudes toward Trump, his campaign, and policies. We argue that group polarization influenced people’s opinions about Trump such that attitudes became more extreme after discussion with like‐minded individuals. We report changes for Trump nonsupporters for which group polarization occurred on attitudes toward illegal immigration, political correctness, the military, women, and veterans after the group discussion. For each, level of support for Trump’s views decreased. To further explore potential psychological mechanisms associated with group polarization, we employed network science methods to examine the structure of the language associated with these issues and identify potential drivers of attitude change. Results provide some support for a common mechanism for group polarization, which may be driven by language dynamics specific to individual attitudes.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 64%

The Effect of Group Polarization on Opposition to Donald Trump

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Political Psychology

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“…For Cincinnati, network development is less actionable because positive network characteristics are likely to remain or even strengthen over time. Because network development is path dependent and dynamic, and therefore future network states depend on developmental context and formative history (Eiler et al., in press), and those measured are already collaborative, we are confident that with time and additional resources and infrastructure these networks will continue this positive trend. Yet network development strategy provides intervention opportunity in that organizations and their partners may aim to develop incentives that encourage strategic collaboration in the Latino network.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a social network, both overall network structure and individual node position matter. Thus, current network structure constrains local interactions, which gave rise to macroscopic network structure to begin with (Eiler, Kallen, & Richardson, in press). In developing networks, this means that individual connections between nodes may have characteristic influences on the network as a whole.…”

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A Social Network Approach to Understanding Community Partnerships in a Nontraditional Destination for Latinos

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Journal Community Psychology

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Cincinnati, like other new migration areas, has recently experienced tremendous growth in the Latino immigrant population. Because greater health disparities exist for Latinos compared to both majority and other minority groups, it is essential to understand how migratory patterns and healthcare infrastructure are related. In this study, social network analysis (SNA), which quantitatively assesses and evaluates network formation and network relationships, was used to investigate the structure of the Greater Cincinnati Latino health network. Referral and collaboration networks were assessed for 29 individuals serving the Latino community. Results indicated the desired collaboration network was nearly twice as dense as either the physical or the mental health referral networks. The physical network was also denser than the mental health network. Similar results were found when analyzing network centralization. Taken together, results indicate a need for additional strategic partnerships between Latino‐serving providers and the Latino‐serving community. Specific recommendations are briefly discussed.

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“…Two key characteristics of any synergy are dimensional compression and reciprocal compensation [13, 47]. Dimensional compression relates to the reduction of DOF within the synergy as a result of the constraints through which they are coupled.…”

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“…This higher-level order then goes on to act as a constraint on the local-level components of the synergy. This process has been termed timescale enslavement [47], as the more slowly changing global order both arises from and then goes on to constrain the local, faster-timescale dynamics.…”

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Combat as an Interpersonal Synergy: An Ecological Dynamics Approach to Combat Sports

2019

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In combat sports, athletes continuously co-adapt their behavior to that of the opponent. We consider this interactive aspect of combat to be at the heart of skilled performance, yet combat sports research often neglects or limits interaction between combatants. To promote a more interactive approach, the aim of this paper is to understand combat sports from the combined perspective of ecological psychology and dynamic systems. Accordingly, combat athletes are driven by perception of affordances to attack and defend. Two combatants in a fight self-organize into one interpersonal synergy, where the perceptions and actions of both athletes are coupled. To be successful in combat, performers need to manipulate and take advantage of the (in)stability of the system. Skilled performance in combat sports therefore requires brinkmanship: combatants need to be aware of their action boundaries and purposefully act in meta-stable regions on the limits of their capabilities. We review the experimental literature to provide initial support for a synergetic approach to combat sports. Expert combatants seem able to accurately perceive action boundaries for themselves and their opponent. Local-level behavior of individual combatants has been found to lead to spatiotemporal synchronization at the global level of a fight. Yet, a formal understanding of combat as a dynamic system starting with the identification of order and control parameters is still lacking. We conclude that the ecological dynamics perspective offers a promising approach to further our understanding of skilled performance in combat sports, as well as to assist coaches and athletes to promote optimal training and learning.

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Interaction-Dominant Dynamics, Timescale Enslavement, and The Emergence of Social Behavior

Cited by 10 publications

References 1 publication

The Effect of Group Polarization on Opposition to Donald Trump

The Effect of Group Polarization on Opposition to Donald Trump

A Social Network Approach to Understanding Community Partnerships in a Nontraditional Destination for Latinos

Combat as an Interpersonal Synergy: An Ecological Dynamics Approach to Combat Sports

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