Dynamical Social Psychology

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.

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.