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Title: Thinking inside the box—dynamical constraints on mind and action: Comment on Marsh et al.’s ‘‘Toward a radically embodied, embedded social psychology,’’ this issue.
Creator: Vallacher, Robin R., Jackson, Deanna
Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2796530
Subject Headings: Social psychology., Interpersonal relations --Psychological aspects., Social interaction.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Objective self-awareness, standards of evaluation, and moral behavior.
Creator: Vallacher, Robin R., Solodky, Maurice
Date Issued: 1979
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2796533
Subject Headings: Self-perception., Psychology --Experiments., Decision making --Moral and ethical aspects.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Levels of personal agency: individual variation in action identification.
Creator: Vallacher, Robin R., Wegner, Daniel M.
Date Issued: 1989
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2796508
Subject Headings: Intentionalism., Agent(Philosophy)., Motivation (Psychology) --Social aspects., Social psychology., Personality and cognition.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: To belong or to self-enhance? Motivational bases for choosing interaction partners.
Creator: Rudich, Eric A., Vallacher, Robin R.
Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2796512
Subject Headings: Self-esteem., Motivation (Psychology)., Social interaction., Social psychology.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Interpersonal engagement in social perception: the consequences of getting into the action.
Creator: Knight, Jeffrey A., Vallacher, Robin R.
Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2796496
Subject Headings: Social interaction., Cognition., Social psychology.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: What do people think they're doing? Action identification and human behavior.
Creator: Vallacher, Robin R., Wegner, Daniel M.
Date Issued: 1987
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2796518
Subject Headings: Social interaction., Social psychology., Motivation (Psychology).
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Dynamics of social coordination: the synchronization of internal states in close relationships.
Creator: Vallacher, Robin R., Nowak, Andrzej, Zochowski, Michal
Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2182034
Subject Headings: Dynamics., Psychology, Social., Interpersonal relations --Mathematical models., Interpersonal relations --Psychological aspects., Psychometrics., Nonlinear Dynamics.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Equity and the formation of revolutionary and conservative coalitions in triads.
Creator: Messe, Lawrence A., Vallacher, Robin R., Phillips, James L.
Date Issued: 1975
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2796510
Subject Headings: Social psychology., Social interaction.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The emergence of personality: dynamic foundations of individual variation.
Creator: Nowak, Andrzej, Vallacher, Robin R.
Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2181980
Subject Headings: Personality., Social psychology., Personality development.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: That's easy for you to say: Action identification and speech fluency.
Creator: Vallacher, Robin R., Wegner, Daniel M., Somoza, Maria P.
Date Issued: 1989
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2796529
Subject Headings: Social psychology., Intentionalism., Motivation (Psychology)., Psycholinguistics., Speech --Research.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Rethinking intractable conflict: the perspective of dynamical systems.
Creator: Vallacher, Robin R., Coleman, Peter T., Nowak, Andrzej, Bui-Wrzosinska, Lan
Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2683585
Subject Headings: Conflict (Psychology) --Research., Dynamics., Conflict., Dynamics --Psychological aspects.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Relationship experience as a predictor of romantic jealousy.
Creator: Murphy, Samantha M., Vallacher, Robin R., Shackelford, Todd K., Bjorklund, David F., Yunger, Jennifer L.
Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2796383
Subject Headings: Evolutionary psychology., Sexual Behavior --psychology., Jealousy --Social aspects., Man-woman relationships --Psychological aspects.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Intractable conflict as an attractor: a dynamical systems approach to conflict escalation and intractability.
Creator: Nowak, Andrzej, Vallacher, Robin R., Coleman, Peter T.
Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2182031
Subject Headings: Conflict (Psychology) --Research., Conflict., Interpersonal conflict., Dynamics --Psychological aspects.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Critical Few: Anticonformists at the Crossroads of Minority Opinion Survival and Collapse.
Creator: Matthew Jarman, Andrzej Nowak, Wojciech Borkowski, David Serfass, Alexander Wong, Robin Vallacher
Abstract/Description: To maintain stability yet retain the flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances, social systems must strike a balance between the maintenance of a shared reality and the survival of minority opinion. A computational model is presented that investigates the interplay of two basic, oppositional social processes— conformity and anticonformity—in promoting the emergence of this balance. Computer simulations employing a cellular automata platform tested hypotheses concerning the survival of...
Show moreTo maintain stability yet retain the flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances, social systems must strike a balance between the maintenance of a shared reality and the survival of minority opinion. A computational model is presented that investigates the interplay of two basic, oppositional social processes— conformity and anticonformity—in promoting the emergence of this balance. Computer simulations employing a cellular automata platform tested hypotheses concerning the survival of minority opinion and the maintenance of system stability for different proportions of anticonformity. Results revealed that a relatively small proportion of anticonformists facilitated the survival of a minority opinion held by a larger number of conformists who would otherwise succumb to pressures for social consensus. Beyond a critical threshold, however, increased proportions of anticonformists undermined social stability. Understanding the adaptive benefits of balanced oppositional forces has implications for optimal functioning in psychological and social processes in general.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000485
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Beyond the attractor metaphor: new quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze interpersonal psychology dynamics.
Creator: Michaels, Jay L., Wiese, Susan, Strawinska, Urszula, Vallacher, Robin R., Liebovitch, Larry S., Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164630
Subject Headings: Interpersonal communication, Interpersonal relations, Psycholinguistics
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Dynamics in the stream of self-reflection.
Creator: Buchholz, Christopher Thomas, Florida Atlantic University, Vallacher, Robin R.
Abstract/Description: This work argues that the self can be viewed as a dynamical system, with lower-level cognitive and affective elements that interact over time giving rise to global patterns of thought and behavior. The underlying structural features of the self-system promote temporal variation in self-evaluation in the stream of thought. To capture the dynamics of self-evaluation, a refinement of the "mouse paradigm" is employed. This procedure assesses the stream of self-evaluative thought and thus provides...
Show moreThis work argues that the self can be viewed as a dynamical system, with lower-level cognitive and affective elements that interact over time giving rise to global patterns of thought and behavior. The underlying structural features of the self-system promote temporal variation in self-evaluation in the stream of thought. To capture the dynamics of self-evaluation, a refinement of the "mouse paradigm" is employed. This procedure assesses the stream of self-evaluative thought and thus provides insight into the global structural features of the self. The goals of this research were to establish the validity of the "mouse paradigm" and to explore the relationship between the structure and dynamics of the self as expressed in self-reflection. The "mouse paradigm" is a procedure where individuals talk about themselves and subsequently indicate the valence of their self-description using a computer mouse. Participants move the mouse pointer (towards a target in the center of the screen to indicate a positive self-evaluation and away from the target to indicate a negative self-evaluation) while listening to the previously recorded version of their self-description. This technique makes it possible to examine self-evaluation as it changes over time. In study 1, participants described themselves after exposure to various self-relevant memory primes (positive, negative, mixed, and no prime). Traditional measures of the structural features of the self were found to be systematically related to the dynamic properties of participants' mouse movements (distance from target, variance, rate of change, and time at rest). Also, the priming manipulations were found to significantly alter the valence and dynamic properties of participants' self-evaluation. Study 2 explored the relationship between individual differences in self-structure and susceptibility to external influence. Participants were asked to describe themselves from three different perspectives (ideal self, actual self, and feared self). Perspective taking was found to systematically alter the nature of participants' self-evaluations. Furthermore, participants with relatively "weak" self-structures were found to be more influenced by the perspective manipulation. In general, results suggest that global properties of self-structure are related to the temporal flow of self-evaluation. Furthermore, individual differences in self-structure result in different levels of susceptibility to extrinsic influence.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11999
Subject Headings: Self-evaluation, Self, Self-perception
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Mental calibration and the enjoyment of action.
Creator: Rudich, Eric A., Florida Atlantic University, Vallacher, Robin R.
Abstract/Description: Two studies tested the optimality hypothesis of action identification theory (Vallacher & Wegner, 1985). This model predicts that personally difficult activities are enjoyed when they are identified in relatively low-level, "how-to" terms, whereas personally easy activities are enjoyed when they are identified in higher level, comprehensive terms. In Study 1, participants (N = 172) attempted to solve either high- or low-difficulty anagrams under various identities for their behavior. In Study...
Show moreTwo studies tested the optimality hypothesis of action identification theory (Vallacher & Wegner, 1985). This model predicts that personally difficult activities are enjoyed when they are identified in relatively low-level, "how-to" terms, whereas personally easy activities are enjoyed when they are identified in higher level, comprehensive terms. In Study 1, participants (N = 172) attempted to solve either high- or low-difficulty anagrams under various identities for their behavior. In Study 2, expert and novice artists (N = 55) drew a picture under either a high or low identity for the act of drawing. In both studies, results provided support for action identification theory's model of task enjoyment.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15222
Subject Headings: Motivation (Psychology), Cognition, Action theory
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Of one mind? An action identification analysis of self-structure.
Creator: Miller, Mandy E., Florida Atlantic University, Vallacher, Robin R.
Abstract/Description: The way we think about ourselves is reflected in, and shaped by, the way we think about our actions. The identification of action can vary from mechanistic, low level depictions to far more comprehensive, high level depictions. This study tests the supposition that comprehensive understanding of action is a precondition for coherence in self-concept and that failure to generate stable, high level action identifications interferes with the formation of a stable and personally certain self...
Show moreThe way we think about ourselves is reflected in, and shaped by, the way we think about our actions. The identification of action can vary from mechanistic, low level depictions to far more comprehensive, high level depictions. This study tests the supposition that comprehensive understanding of action is a precondition for coherence in self-concept and that failure to generate stable, high level action identifications interferes with the formation of a stable and personally certain self-concept. It was predicted (and the results confirmed) that persons who experience fragmented action understanding (i.e., relatively low level action identification) demonstrate less coherence in their overall self-evaluative stance and greater self-uncertainty and self-instability. The relationships between self-concept and coherence (i.e., self-stability and self-certainty) and action identification level was studied in both a context-free manner and with respect to specific social roles. The results expand our understanding of the nature and impact of the organizational processes at work within the self system.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12842
Subject Headings: Human behavior, Self, Social perception, Self-evaluation
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Mixing properties in human behavioral style and time dependencies in behavior identification: The modeling and application of a universal dynamical law.
Creator: Selz, Karen A., Florida Atlantic University, Vallacher, Robin R.
Abstract/Description: Human subjects perform simple, relatively unconstrained, game-like computer tasks. "Meso-level" measures of behavioral complexity and time-dependencies (including entropies, grammatical complexity estimates and run statistics) are derived and computed. Individual behavioral differences in the resulting complexity measures are robust and, in a temporal-forcing paradigm, are statistically significantly related to the same individual's scores on a range of personality and demographic variables....
Show moreHuman subjects perform simple, relatively unconstrained, game-like computer tasks. "Meso-level" measures of behavioral complexity and time-dependencies (including entropies, grammatical complexity estimates and run statistics) are derived and computed. Individual behavioral differences in the resulting complexity measures are robust and, in a temporal-forcing paradigm, are statistically significantly related to the same individual's scores on a range of personality and demographic variables. Through an experimental manipulation and the statistical selection of maximally useful predictor sets personality and demographic variables are united in a "macro-level" temperament typology, based on "micro-level" behavioral tendencies. Further, I can compute a parameter value of a one dimensional dynamical system, the symmetric tent map, matched to the symbol sequence "meso-level" parities of the subject. When this parameter is used in the iterated map, it produces sequences that are of the same autocorrelation "category" and share much of the fine structure of the autocorrelograms of the subjects to which the map parameter had been matched.
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Date Issued: 1992
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12306
Subject Headings: Rape victims, Attribution (Social psychology)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The verdict: The emergence process in the allocation of blame.
Creator: Verebay, Jacqueline, Florida Atlantic University, Vallacher, Robin R.
Abstract/Description: The primary goal of this research was to determine if the emergence process of action identification could be applied to the way a person perceives another's actions and therefore predict contrasting judgments of right and wrong. Specifically, subjects read transcripts depicting a crime of either grand theft or murder under an induced high or low level of action identification, followed by one of two closing arguments which summarized the position of either the defense or the prosecution....
Show moreThe primary goal of this research was to determine if the emergence process of action identification could be applied to the way a person perceives another's actions and therefore predict contrasting judgments of right and wrong. Specifically, subjects read transcripts depicting a crime of either grand theft or murder under an induced high or low level of action identification, followed by one of two closing arguments which summarized the position of either the defense or the prosecution. Judgments of blame were obtained from all subjects. Results suggest that the emergence process is more general than originally conceived and can be applied to person perception. As predicted, compared to high level subjects, low level subjects who read about the crime of grand theft, were more influenced by whatever closing argument they read. Implications and future research directions are discussed.
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Date Issued: 1990
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14584
Subject Headings: Intentionalism, Verdicts
Format: Document (PDF)

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