Origins of Order in Joint Activity and Social Behavior

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

doi:10.1080/10407413.2013.810107

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“…Therefore, while Figure 2 is a useful theoretical and analytical scaffold for mapping the relationship between social cues and signals, Figure 3 can be used as a means to map the interaction of the various components comprising social units that are coupled at a given point in an interaction, over various temporal scales (cf. Eiler et al, 2013 ). This is where we feel the methods of dynamical systems are useful as an integrative means to provide for the examination of social cognitive processes and refer the reader to Richardson et al ( 2014 ) for an overview of how dynamical methods could be applied to map these relationships.…”

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Prospects for direct social perception: a multi-theoretical integration to further the science of social cognition

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Lobato

McConnell

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Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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In this paper we suggest that differing approaches to the science of social cognition mirror the arguments between radical embodied and traditional approaches to cognition. We contrast the use in social cognition of theoretical inference and mental simulation mechanisms with approaches emphasizing a direct perception of others’ mental states. We build from a recent integrative framework unifying these divergent perspectives through the use of dual-process theory and supporting social neuroscience research. Our elaboration considers two complementary notions of direct perception: one primarily stemming from ecological psychology and the other from enactive cognition theory. We use this as the foundation from which to offer an account of the informational basis for social information and assert a set of research propositions to further the science of social cognition. In doing so, we point out how perception of the minds of others can be supported in some cases by lawful information, supporting direct perception of social affordances and perhaps, mental states, and in other cases by cues that support indirect perceptual inference. Our goal is to extend accounts of social cognition by integrating advances across disciplines to provide a multi-level and multi-theoretic description that can advance this field and offer a means through which to reconcile radical embodied and traditional approaches to cognitive neuroscience.

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Prospects for direct social perception: a multi-theoretical integration to further the science of social cognition

Wiltshire

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McConnell

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“…Because roles are switched frequently agents are rather familiar with how the scenario appears to opponents (allocentric perspective;Mark, 2007). This mental role reversal, as it were, help agents avoid telltale signals to avoid accidental enablement of their opponents.5 This relates to the emphasis in dynamic systems approaches on multiple timescales of interaction(Dumas, Kelso, & Nadel, 2014;Eiler, Kallen, Harrison, & Richardson, 2013). Permanent "grammar" skills are one important aspect of how the higher timescale becomes effective, although other, more interactive aspects like training history with a partner also belong in this category.ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY…”

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Affordances in Interaction: The Case of Aikido

Kimmel

Rogler

2018

Ecological Psychology

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Our title can be read as trivially true, namely, that perceived affordances shape real-time interaction dynamics. A less trivial reading suggests that affordances themselves interact in a shared dyadic field, such that the number and quality of As and Bs affordances are dynamically coupled with bidirectional causality. In dance, martial arts, or team sports agents strategically comodulate each other's affordances while pursuing their aims. In Aikido, where agents try to break their opponents' balance, this trade-off globally approximates a zero-sum game-the better A's affordances are, the lousier B's affordances get. The agents are subject to ceaseless cross-causation in this shared field. They seek to obstruct their opponents' options while strategically enabling, augmenting, and sculpting their own by employing subtle perceptual manipulation skills, redirecting force, brinkmanship, and switching techniques opportunistically. To overcome static views, we conceptualize affordances as cascading and having fluid onsets; we also identify nested affordances in goal hierarchies and describe a spectrum of affordance functions. Ultimately, we suggest rethinking the ontology of affordances as being sensitive to dynamic engagements, hence defined relative to interpersonal emergence.

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“…The results revealed that pairs learned to stabilize the interpersonal balance board by imposing a differential leader-follower type solution, with the intra-personal control of one individual operating in a subordinate and compensatory role with respect to the control of their co-actor. A more recent example, one that better lends itself to a formal description of how explicit symmetry-breaking parameters can induce more functionally organized behavioral order during multiagent coordination, stems from a study by Richardson and colleagues (Richardson, Harrison, Kallen, Walton, Eiler, Saltzman and Schmidt, 2015;Eiler, Kallen, Harrison and Richardson, 2013) examining the behavioral dynamics of a two-person collision avoidance task. For this task, participant pairs were instructed to perform a repetitive targeting task in which they each moved a computer stimulus back and forth between sets of diagonally opposed target locations without the stimuli colliding into each other.…”

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Symmetry-Breaking and the Contextual Emergence of Human Multiagent Coordination and Social Activity

Richardson

Kallen

2015

Contextuality From Quantum Physics to Psychology

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Here we review a range of interpersonal and multiagent phenomena that demonstrate how the formal and conceptual principles of symmetry, and spontaneous and explicit symmetry-breaking, can be employed to investigate, understand, and model the lawful dynamics that underlie selforganized social action and behavioral coordination. In doing so, we provided a brief introduction to group theory and discuss how symmetry groups can be used to predict and explain the patterns of multiagent coordination that are possible within a given task context. Finally, we argue that the theoretical principles of symmetry and symmetry-breaking provide an ideal and highly generalizable framework for understanding the behavioral order that characterizes everyday social activity.

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Origins of Order in Joint Activity and Social Behavior

Cited by 13 publications

References 18 publications

Prospects for direct social perception: a multi-theoretical integration to further the science of social cognition

Prospects for direct social perception: a multi-theoretical integration to further the science of social cognition

Affordances in Interaction: The Case of Aikido

Symmetry-Breaking and the Contextual Emergence of Human Multiagent Coordination and Social Activity

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