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Changing Yourself, Changing the Other, or Changing Your Connection

Integrative Dynamics of States and Interactions in a Social Context

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When persons function in a social context they interact with a number of other persons they know. These persons themselves also interact with a number of persons. And so on and on. When each person is modeled by a node and for each of these interactions arcs between the nodes are drawn, this results in a social network model, sometimes also called a social network ; for example, as shown in Fig. 11.1. Note that as such arcs indicate that interaction takes place, and interaction in principle means that persons affect each other, from a dynamical perspective they can also be considered relations that represent mutual causal effects on certain mental states of persons.

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Treur, J. (2016). Changing Yourself, Changing the Other, or Changing Your Connection. In: Network-Oriented Modeling. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45213-5_11

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