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9781572303539

Dynamical Social Psychology

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    9781572303539

  • ISBN10:

    1572303530

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-10-09
  • Publisher: The Guilford Press

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Univ. of Warsaw, Poland. Text on the dynamic approach to social psychology. Uses innovative concepts and tools to illuminate the processes by which individuals, groups, and societies evolve and change in a systemic manner, independent of external influences. For researchers and students in graduate and upper-graduate social psychology courses.

Author Biography

Robin R. Vallacher, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University and an affiliate of the Center for Complex Systems, University of Warsaw. Dr. Vallacher has written and edited four previous books concerned with theoretical and topical issues in social psychology. His published research, funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health, has addressed topics including group dynamics, distributive justice, person perception, self-awareness, moral behavior, the mental representation and control of action, individual differences in goal-directedness, self-presentation, moral judgment, and self-concept stability and change. Dr. Vallacher's current interest is developing dynamical models of social psychological phenomena, with special emphasis on the dynamics of self-understanding, social judgment, and close relationships.

Table of Contents

1. Social Psychological Dynamics
1(29)
Dynamics and Human Nature
3(4)
Complexity and Internal Causation
3(2)
Dynamism and Unpredictability
5(2)
Dynamism in Social Psychology
7(9)
Early Insights into Dynamics
8(3)
The Ebb and Flow of Dynamics in Social Psychology
11(5)
The Reemergence of Dynamical Social Psychology
16(12)
Cyclic Phenomena
16(3)
Cellular Automata
19(2)
Connectionism
21(1)
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
22(4)
Dynamics and Causation
26(2)
Insight and Rigor in Social Psychology
28(2)
2. The Dynamical Perspective
30(50)
Intrinsic Dynamics
32(4)
Intrinsic Dynamics, Feedback, and Causality
32(1)
Patterns of Intrinsic Dynamics
33(3)
Nonlinear Relations
36(10)
Linear versus Nonlinear Relations
36(2)
The Logistic Equation
38(5)
Coupled Logistic Equations
43(1)
Hysteresis
44(2)
Complexity
46(9)
Control Parameters
46(2)
Order Parameters
48(4)
Emergence and Self-Organization
52(3)
Stability and Change
55(8)
Phase Space and Trajectories
55(3)
Attractors
58(3)
Bifurcations
61(2)
Determinism and Unpredictability
63(3)
Deterministic Chaos
63(2)
Fractals
65(1)
The Elements of Dynamical Research
66(11)
Identifying Patterns
67(5)
Stability Analysis
72(2)
Models of Qualitative Understanding
74(2)
Computer Simulations
76(1)
The Relevance of Dynamical Social Psychology
77(3)
3. Dynamics of Social Judgement
80(40)
Dynamism in Social Judgment
82(7)
Resistance to Change
82(2)
Incremental versus Catastrophic Change
84(3)
Dynamics of Stability and Change
87(2)
Intrinsic Dynamics of Social Judgment
89(13)
Internally Generated Change
90(3)
Characterizing Intrinsic Dynamics
93(6)
System Coherence and Intrinsic Dynamics
99(2)
Ambivalence in Social Judgment
101(1)
Static versus Dynamic Integration
102(13)
The Basis for Dynamic Integration
103(3)
Dynamic Integration and Stereotypes
106(5)
Models of Dynamic Integration
111(4)
Judgment Dynamism in Perspective
115(5)
4. Mental Dynamics in Action
120(24)
The Self-Organization of Action
122(6)
The Emergence Process
122(2)
Intrinsic Dynamics of Action Emergence
124(4)
The Coordination of Mind and Action
128(7)
The Self-Regulation of Action
128(4)
The Role of Consciousness
132(3)
Dysfunction in Action Systems
135(5)
Nonoptimality in Mind-Action Coordination
135(2)
Emotion and System Coherence
137(3)
A Dynamical Taxonomy of Action
140(4)
5. Dynamics and Self-Organization
144(38)
Intrinsic Dynamics of Self-Evaluation
145(13)
Self-Dynamics in Social Psychology
145(2)
Intrinsic Dynamics and the Press for Integration
147(2)
The Stream of Self-Consciousness
149(9)
Self-Structure and Dynamics
158(16)
Integration and Differentiation in the Self-System
159(1)
Interinsic Dynamics of Self-Organization
160(6)
Intrinsic Dynamics and Incoming Information
166(4)
Intrinsic Dynamics and Biased Incoming Information
170(4)
Self-Control
174(5)
System Coherence and Self-Control
174(1)
Social Self-Control
175(4)
The Self-System in Perspective
179(3)
6. Interpersonal Dynamics
182(35)
The Coordination of Dynamics
183(10)
The Role of Coordination
183(1)
The Coordination of Behavior
184(3)
The Coordination of Internal States
187(3)
The Quality of Coordination
190(1)
The Benefits and Costs of Coordinating Dynamics
191(2)
Modeling the Coordination of Relationship Dynamics
193(9)
Modeling the Coordination of Behavior
194(5)
Modeling the Coordination of Internal States
199(3)
Equilibria in Close Relationships
202(11)
The Formation of Relationship Equilibria
203(2)
Hysteresis in Close Relationships
205(3)
Attractors of Love
208(5)
Interpersonal Dynamics in Perspective
213(4)
7. Dynamics of Social Influence
217(33)
The Dynamics of Individual Influence
218(6)
Influencing Behavior
218(3)
Resetting Control Parameters
221(3)
Cellular Automata Models of Social Influence
224(12)
A Dynamical Model of Social Influence
225(2)
Social Order Parameters
227(2)
Conditions Necessary for Polarization and Clustering
229(3)
Control Parameters of Social Influence
232(3)
Cellular Automata Models in Perspective
235(1)
Attractor Neural Network Models of Social Influence
236(10)
Individuals and their Connections
237(2)
Attractor Social Networks
239(3)
The Emergence of Ideology
242(2)
Attractor Neural Networks in Perspective
244(2)
Uncharted Territory in Social Influence
246(4)
8. The Individual and Society
250(29)
Levels of Social Reality
251(4)
Levels of Description and Invariant Principles
251(2)
Emergent Properties and Levels of Social Reality
253(2)
Dilemmas of Interdependence
255(8)
Mixed Motives in Social Relationships
255(1)
The Emergence of Cooperation
256(3)
Competition among Strategies
259(4)
Social Change
263(6)
The Nature of Social Transitions
264(3)
Facilitating Social Change
267(2)
The Identity of Dynamical Social Psychology
269(6)
Dynamical Models in Perspective
269(3)
The Uniqueness of Human Experience
272(2)
Toward Coherence in Social Psychological Theory
274(1)
Further Iterations
275(4)
References 279(32)
Index 311

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