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FormalPara Robin R. Vallacher

is a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University. He is also a research associate in the Center for Complex Systems at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and a research affiliate in the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity at Columbia University. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin; University of Bern, Switzerland; Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, Germany; and University of Montpellier, France.

Early Life and Educational Background

Vallacher was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1946—the first year of the baby boom generation. Because of problematic family circumstances, he moved several times during his childhood between Minneapolis and California. He spent his teen years in San Diego, where he graduated from high school in 1964—the first year the baby boom generation began to leave its mark.

Vallacher attended college at San Diego State University, in large part...

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    Action Identification

    • Parkin, S. S., Jarman, M. S., & Vallacher, R. R. (2015). On being mindful: What do people think they are doing? Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9, 31–44.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., & Selz, K. (1991). Who's to blame? Action identification in allocating responsibility for alleged rape. Social Cognition, 9, 194–219.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., & Wegner, D. M. (1985). A theory of action identification. Hillsdale: Erlbaum.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., & Wegner, D. M. (1987). What do people think they're doing? Action identification and human behavior. Psychological Review, 94, 3–15.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., & Wegner, D. M. (1989). Levels of personal agency: Individual variation in action identification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 660–671.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., Wegner, D. M., & Frederick, J. (1987). The presentation of self through action identification. Social Cognition, 5, 301–322.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., Wegner, D. M., & Somoza, M. P. (1989). That's easy for you to say: Action identification and speech fluency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 199–208.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., Wegner, D. M., McMahan, S. C., Cotter, J., & Larsen, K. A. (1992). On winning friends and influencing people: Action identification and self-presentation success. Social Cognition, 10, 335–355.

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    • Wegner, D. M., & Vallacher, R. R. (1987). The trouble with action. Social Cognition, 5, 179–190.

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    • Wegner, D. M., Vallacher, R. R., Macomber, G., Wood, R., & Arps, K. (1984). The emergence of action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 269–279.

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    • Wegner, D. M., Vallacher, R. R., Kiersted, G. W., & Dizadji, D. M. (1986). Action identification in the emergence of social behavior. Social Cognition, 4, 18–38.

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    • Wegner, D. M., Vallacher, R. R., & Dizadji, D. M. (1989). Do alcoholics know what they're doing? Identifications of the act of drinking. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 10, 197–210.

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    Dynamical Social Psychology

    • Coleman, P. T., Vallacher, R. R., Nowak, A., & Bui-Wrzosinska, L. (2007). Intractable conflict as an attractor: A dynamical systems approach to conflict escalation and intractability. American Behavioral Scientist, 50, 1454–1475.

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    • Gernigon, C., Vallacher, R. R., Nowak, A., & Conroy, D. E. (2015). Rethinking approach and avoidance in achievement contexts: The perspective of dynamical systems. Review of General Psychology, 19, 443–457.

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    • Jarman, M., Nowak, A., Borkowski, W., Serfass, D., Wong, A., & Vallacher, R. R. (2015). The critical few: Anticonformists at the crossroads of minority survival and collapse. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 18(1), 6 .http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/18/1/6.html

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    • Liebovitch, L. S., Naudot, V., Vallacher, R. R., Nowak, A., Bui-Wrzosinska, L., & Coleman, P. T. (2008). Dynamics of two-actor cooperation-competition conflict models. Physica A, 387, 6360–6378.

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    • Liebovitch, L. S., Vallacher, R. R., & Michaels, J. (2010). Dynamics of cooperation-competition interaction models. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 16, 175–188.

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    • Michaels, J., & Vallacher, R. R. (2009). The ghost in the system: Where free will lurks in the human mind. In-Mind Magazine. http://www.in-mind.org/.

    • Michaels, J., Vallacher, R. R., & Liebovitch, L. (2013). Volatile psychological dynamics in social interactions: Attitudes and emotions react asymmetrically to interaction shifts between agreement and disagreement. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 705–713.

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    • Nowak, A., & Vallacher, R. R. (1998). Dynamical social psychology. New York: Guilford.

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    • Nowak, A., & Vallacher, R. R. (2005). Information and influence in the construction of shared reality. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 20, 90–93.

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    • Nowak, A., Vallacher, R. R., Tesser, A., & Borkowski, W. (2000a). Society of self: The emergence of collective properties in self-structure. Psychological Review, 107, 39–61.

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    • Nowak, A., Vallacher, R. R., & Borkowski, W. (2000b). Modeling the temporal coordination of behavior and internal states. Advances in Complex Systems, 3, 67–86.

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    • Nowak, A., Vallacher, R. R., & Zochowski, M. (2005). The emergence of personality: Dynamic foundations of individual variation. Developmental Review, 25, 351–385.

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    • Nowak, A., Bui-Wrzosinska, L., Coleman, P. T., Vallacher, R. R., Bartkowski, W., & Jochemczyk, L. (2010). Seeking sustainable solutions: Using an attractor simulation platform for teaching multi-stakeholder negotiation in complex cases. Negotiation Journal, 26, 49–68.

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    • Shackelford, T. K., & Vallacher, R. R. (2004). From disorder to coherence in social psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 356–356.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., & Nowak, A. (Eds.). (1994). Dynamical systems in social psychology. San Diego: Academic Press.

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    • Vallacher, R. R. (2007). Local acts, global consequences: A dynamical systems perspective on torture. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 13, 445–450.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., & Jackson, D. (2009). Thinking inside the box: Dynamical constraints on mind and action. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 1226–1229.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., Coleman, P. T., Nowak, A., Bui-Wrzosinska, L., Liebovitch, L., Kugler, K. G., & Bartoli, A. (2013). Attracted to conflict: Dynamic foundations of destructive social relations. Heidelberg: Springer.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., & Nowak, A. (1997a). The emergence of dynamical social psychology. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 73–99.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., & Nowak, A. (1997b). Dynamical social psychology: The next iteration. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 152–160.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., Nowak, A., & Kaufman, J. (1994). Intrinsic dynamics of social judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 20–34.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., & Nowak, A. (Eds.). (1994). Dynamical systems in social psychology. San Diego: Academic Press.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., Read, S. J., & Nowak, A. (2002a). The dynamical perspective in personality and social psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 264–273.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., Read, S. J., & Nowak, A. (Eds.). (2017). Computational social psychology. New York: Psychology Press.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., Nowak, A., Froehlich, M., & Rockloff, M. (2002b). The dynamics of self-evaluation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 370–379.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., Coleman, P. T., Nowak, A., & Bui-Wrzosinska, L. (2010a). Rethinking intractable conflict: The perspective of dynamical systems. American Psychologist, 65, 262–278.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., Coleman, P. T., Nowak, A., & Bui-Wrzosinska, L. (2010b). Dynamical foundations of intractable conflict: Introduction to the special issue. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 16, 113–125.

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    • Vallacher, R. R., van Geert, P., & Nowak, A. (2015). The intrinsic dynamics of psychological process. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 58–64.

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    • Wiese, S. L., Vallacher, R. R., & Strawinska, U. (2010). Dynamical social psychology: Complexity and coherence in human experience. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 1018–1030. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00319.x.

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    • Wong, A., Vallacher, R. R., & Nowak, A. (2014). Fractal dynamics in self-evaluation reveal self-concept clarity. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 18, 349–370.

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    • Wong, A. E., Vallacher, R. R., & Nowak, A. (2016). Intrinsic dynamics of self-evaluation: The role of self-concept clarity. Personality and Individual Differences. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.05.024.

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    1. Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

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    Vallacher, R. (2016). Vallacher, Robin. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1508-1

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