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Lewinian interdependence theory, dynamics, and tension systems: an application to social support and game theory
Abstract
dc:description.abstractSocial psychology, personality theory, economics, and epistemology have suffered from a failure to incorporate dynamic behavior into theory. Dynamic behavior is the rate of change of behavior and the forces that cause change. Not much is known about dynamics, but fifty years ago Lewin linked interdependence to dynamics; his ideas were articulated in this study as a tension force anchored between a fixed personality and the environment and expressed as a seeking of preferred social situations. Couched in ideas of the whole where a group is the sum of its tension system, outcomes like stability or trust for dyads, or like innovation and failure for organizations, can be predicted.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph. D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Psychology
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Psychology
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1992
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Lawless, W. F.
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Axsom, Danny K.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Geller, E. Scott
- Harvey, Robert J.
- Hauenstein, Neil M. A.
- Demo, David H.
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-12222005-090625
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/40440