Dynamical Social Psychology: An Introduction
Book Title
Complex Human Dynamics: From Mind to Societies
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
978-3642314353
Publication Date
11-2012
Editors
Andrzej Nowak, Katarzyna Winkowska-Nowak, David Brée
Keywords
Human dynamics, societies, social psychology, complex
Description
In this chapter we outline the background to dynamical social psychogy as it stood before the research described in later chapters of this book. This background will help readers who are not familiar with either social psychology or complexity science to follow those chapters more easily. It will focus on two domains within dynamical social psychology: social influence on opinion formation and the concept of self/ It will also consider three aspects of dynamical social psychology that set it apart from previous theories of social psychology: the effect of the degree of coherence between the elements of a system, which explains the different behaviors we see under different circumstances, how emotions regulate other psychological systems, and the drive to minimalism, by which behavior which appears to be complex may be understood from a model of the underlying elements interacting under simple rules.
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-31436-0
Publisher
Springer
First Page
1
Last Page
20
Disciplines
Psychology | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Psychology
NSUWorks Citation
Nowak, Andrzej; Robin R. Vallacher; Urszula A. Strawinska-Zanko; and David S. Bree. (2012). Dynamical Social Psychology: An Introduction. In Andrzej Nowak, Katarzyna Winkowska-Nowak, David Brée (Eds.), Complex Human Dynamics: From Mind to Societies .