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Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews, 1995

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The self in social psychology, 1980

operating rules for other psychological phenomena. Mental operations can (and should) be understo... more operating rules for other psychological phenomena. Mental operations can (and should) be understood in terms of information processing rules and cognitive biases; social interaction can be understood in terms of personal concerns, situational factors, and social norms; re t, trust, power, and compatibility; grou er asymmetries, conflicts of interest, superordinate goals, and accountability; and so on, for the various topics that collectively comprise social psychology. Once the basic processes are identified for each of these domains, one can then i

The British journal of social psychology, Jan 22, 2018

Although rapid social change reflects each society's unique combination of myriad social, his... more Although rapid social change reflects each society's unique combination of myriad social, historical, political, and economic factors, we argue that the defining features of such change can be understood with recourse to the dynamic processes inherent in complex systems. Accordingly, we present a formal model that describes, in minimalist terms, the dynamics associated with rapid societal transitions in a society's norms and attitudes-and to the potential for rapid reversals of these transitions. The model predicts that societies in the midst of rapid change are characterized by dual realities corresponding to the new and the old, so that models focusing only on changes in the central tendency of a societal attitude provide a misleading account of rapid social change. This model is implemented in computer simulations and validated with empirical data concerning the transition in Eastern Europe from communism to democracy and a free market economy in the late 1980s.

Choice Reviews Online, 1999

... Agnieszka Guzik, Malgorzata Kozlowska, and Jakub Urbaniak played a similar role at Warsaw Uni... more ... Agnieszka Guzik, Malgorzata Kozlowska, and Jakub Urbaniak played a similar role at Warsaw University. ... His contributions in this regard are greatly appreciat-ed. And we are deeply grateful to Kasia Winkowska-Nowak, a mathe-matician at the Warsaw Center, who provided ...

Journal of Personality, 2017

Objective: We hypothesized that self-knowledge and goal-perseverance are mutually reinforcing bec... more Objective: We hypothesized that self-knowledge and goal-perseverance are mutually reinforcing because of the roles of self-knowledge in directing goal pursuit, and of goal pursuit in structuring the self-concept. Method: To test this hypothesis, we used a daily diary design with 97 college-aged participants for 40 days to assess whether daily self-concept clarity and grit predict one another's next day levels. Data were analyzed using multilevel cross-lagged panel modeling. Results: Results indicated that daily self-concept clarity and grit had positive and symmetric associations on each other across time, while controlling for their respective previous values. Similar crossed results were also found when testing the model using individual daily selfconcept clarity and grit items. Conclusion: The results are the first to indicate the existence of reinforcing feedback loops between self-concept clarity and grit, such that fluctuations in the clarity of self-knowledge are associated with fluctuations in goal resolve, and vice versa. Discussion centers on the implications of these results for the functional link between mind and action and on the study's heuristic value for subsequent research.

Psychological Review, 1987

Social Psychology Handbook of Basic Principles 2007 Isbn 978 1 57230 918 0 Pags 734 758, 2007

The Journal of Social Psychology, 2015

This research addressed three questions concerning facial mimicry: (a) Does the relationship betw... more This research addressed three questions concerning facial mimicry: (a) Does the relationship between mimicry and liking characterize all facial expressions, or is it limited to specific expressions? (b) Is the relationship between facial mimicry and liking symmetrical for the mimicker and the mimickee? (c) Does conscious mimicry have consequences for emotion recognition? A paradigm is introduced in which participants interact over a computer setup with a confederate whose prerecorded facial displays of emotion are synchronized with participants' behavior to create the illusion of social interaction. In Experiment 1, the confederate did or did not mimic participants' facial displays of various subsets of basic emotions. Mimicry promoted greater liking for the confederate regardless of which emotions were mimicked. Experiment 2 reversed these roles: participants were instructed to mimic or not to mimic the confederate's facial displays. Mimicry did not affect liking for the confederate but it did impair emotion recognition.

We show how mathematical methods from complex systems can be used both as metaphors and mathemati... more We show how mathematical methods from complex systems can be used both as metaphors and mathematical equations to understand the nature of conflicts between individuals, groups, and nations and present novel methods for their resolution. The metaphorical approaches have been successful used as training materials for practical applications in conflict management. The mathematical model allows us to test the effects of specific social mechanisms in a conflict. In the model, the state of each group depends on its own state in isolation, its previous state in time, its inertia to change, and the influence from the other group. Each group can influence the other group either through positive or negative feedback. We show how the positive or negative feedback between the groups leads to different dynamics and steady states. 1 Background: The Dynamics of Conflict Consortium Our Dynamics of Conflict Consortium is an interdisciplinary, international group of practitioners and scholars in mediation, conflict management, social psychology, complex systems, and mathematical modeling who are working closely and collaboratively together to understand the nature of conflicts and their resolution. We are working at three different levels: • Field studies (questionnaires, interviews, social network analysis) in Africa

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2015

Thoughts are typically dismissed as sources of distraction that hinder a mindful awareness of ong... more Thoughts are typically dismissed as sources of distraction that hinder a mindful awareness of ongoing experience. Although this may be said of some thoughts, we focus on the undervalued role that regulatory thoughts play in the development and maintenance of mindful action. To do so, we explore the function of thoughts from the perspective of action identification theory. The application of action identification principles to mindfulness yields a new understanding of how the mind coordinates mindful action, with implications for mindfulness instruction, practice, and future research.

1. discuss the implications of dynamical systems theory for a revitalized approach to social psyc... more 1. discuss the implications of dynamical systems theory for a revitalized approach to social psychology/provide concrete recommendations for empirical work and suggest how the host of topics and issues defining social psychology could be examined from a ...