Interlevel Relations and Manipulative Causality

Evaluating social influence relations

“…patients) of the influence system (cf. Schwenk, 2006). The second advantage refers to the fact that attributes of elementary entities are often measured more easily than those of compound entities.…”

“…We have discussed a cognitive model of social influence which is based on the idea of ecological rationality (cf. Gigerenzer et al, 1999) in more detail elsewhere (see Schwenk andReimer, 2007, 2008), and only want to state a central assumption at this point. We assume that dyadic influence relations can be sensibly represented by a certain quantity which is attributed by the target person to the influence source.…”