The Emergence of Dynamical Social Psychology

Vallacher, Robin R.; Nowak, Andrzej

doi:10.1207/s15327965pli0802_1

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“…In these respects the concept of the working self was closely related to other proposals concerning control processing (e.g., Norman & Shallice, 1980;Baddeley, 1986Baddeley, , 2001. However, following the ideas of contemporary self-regulation theorists (Austin & Vancouver, 1996;Carver & Scheier, 1982Vallacher & Nowak, 1997;Vallacher & Wegner, 1987), the working self was principally viewed as an agent for goal processing.…”

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The Self and Autobiographical Memory: Correspondence and Coherence

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2004

Social Cognition

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The Self and Autobiographical Memory: Correspondence and Coherence

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Social Cognition

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“…The phenomena of group psychology are remarkably complex. The set of possible states and behaviors of an individual is complex enough in its own right and the interdependences of different individuals increase such complexity in a multiplicative manner [44].…”

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“…This is because all initial inaccuracies are amplified by the system's intrinsic dynamics such that the inaccuracies grow exponentially with time. Such exponential growth guarantees that after some finite time, the size of the error will be greater than the possible range of states of the system's behavior [44].…”

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Freud’s Theory and the Group Mind Theory: Formulations

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2014

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This study aimed to reconsider some concepts of the psychoanalytic theory on group mind. Group psychology is concerned with the individual man as a member of a race, nation, caste, profession, or an institution, or as a component of a crowd of people that has been organized into a group at some particular time, for some specific purpose. Group psychology embraces an immense number of separate issues and offers investigators with countless problems, which have hitherto not even been properly distinguished from one another. Reflections presented in this paper were particularly inspired by Freud's work on Group psychology and analysis of the ego and approaches to the chaos theory, especially, the fact that groups emerge as systems that exhibit unstable, aperiodic and highly complex behavior, with a tendency to self-organization.

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“…Recently, there has been a burst of applications, for instance in the study of development (Thelen & Smith, 1994;Van der Maas & Molenaar, 1992;Van Geert & Van Dijk, 2002), self-regulation of behavior (Carver & Scheier, 1998), personality (Shoda, Tiernan, & Mischel, 2002), addiction (Warren, Hawkins, & Sprott, 2003;Witkiewitz, Van der Maas, Hufford, & Marlatt, 2007), grief (Bisconti, Bergeman, & Boker, 2004), psychopathology (Granic & Hollenstein, 2003), and psychotherapy (Schiepek, 2003). In addition, several leading journals have devoted special issues to the topic (Vallacher & Nowak, 1997;Vallacher, Read, & Nowak, 2002), and in 1997 a new journal called Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences was started (Guastello, 1997).Mathematically, a dynamic (or dynamical) system is a set of equations that expresses how the state of a system (represented by one or more variables) changes as a function of its previous state. These equations may be deterministic or stochastic (Clayton, 1997), and they can be defined in continuous time as differential equations, or in discrete time as difference equations.…”

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Using Threshold Autoregressive Models to Study Dyadic Interactions

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Considering a dyad as a dynamic system whose current state depends on its past state has allowed researchers to investigate whether and how partners influence each other. Some researchers have also focused on how differences between dyads in their interaction patterns are related to other differences between them. A promising approach in this area is the model that was proposed by Gottman and Murray, which is based on nonlinear coupled difference equations. In this paper, it is shown that their model is a special case of the threshold autoregressive (TAR) model. As a consequence, we can make use of existing knowledge about TAR models with respect to parameter estimation, model alternatives and model selection. We propose a new estimation procedure and perform a simulation study to compare it to the estimation procedure developed by Gottman and Murray. In addition, we include an empirical example based on interaction data of three dyads.Key words: dynamic system, TAR model, autoregressive, dyadic interaction.The notion of a dynamic system has become increasingly popular in psychology, both as a metaphor and as a quantitative approach. Recently, there has been a burst of applications, for instance in the study of development (Thelen & Smith, 1994;Van der Maas & Molenaar, 1992;Van Geert & Van Dijk, 2002), self-regulation of behavior (Carver & Scheier, 1998), personality (Shoda, Tiernan, & Mischel, 2002), addiction (Warren, Hawkins, & Sprott, 2003;Witkiewitz, Van der Maas, Hufford, & Marlatt, 2007), grief (Bisconti, Bergeman, & Boker, 2004), psychopathology (Granic & Hollenstein, 2003), and psychotherapy (Schiepek, 2003). In addition, several leading journals have devoted special issues to the topic (Vallacher & Nowak, 1997;Vallacher, Read, & Nowak, 2002), and in 1997 a new journal called Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences was started (Guastello, 1997).Mathematically, a dynamic (or dynamical) system is a set of equations that expresses how the state of a system (represented by one or more variables) changes as a function of its previous state. These equations may be deterministic or stochastic (Clayton, 1997), and they can be defined in continuous time as differential equations, or in discrete time as difference equations. A particularly useful application of dynamic system theory in psychological research concerns the study of dyadic interactions: Representing each partner by one or more variables and measuring them repeatedly over time allows the researcher to determine whether and how the partners influence each other.

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The Emergence of Dynamical Social Psychology

Cited by 146 publications

References 57 publications

The Self and Autobiographical Memory: Correspondence and Coherence

The Self and Autobiographical Memory: Correspondence and Coherence

Freud’s Theory and the Group Mind Theory: Formulations

Using Threshold Autoregressive Models to Study Dyadic Interactions

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