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Overview

Robin R. Vallacher is affiliated with Florida Atlantic University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

Their scholarly output includes work covering several main topics, such as mental health research, cognitive science and mapping, opinion dynamics and social influence, personality traits and psychology, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, personality disorders and psychopathology, and evolutionary game theory and cooperation.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Vallacher include:

  • How the Complexity of Psychological Processes Reframes the Issue of Reproducibility in Psychological Science, 2023, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Integration and expression: The complementary functions of self-reflection, 2022, Journal of Personality
  • Almost, but not quite there: Research into the emergence of higher-order motivated behavior should fully embrace the dynamic systems approach, 2025, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • The Religious Behavioral Identification Form (RBIF): A scale to measure global versus situational understanding of religious actions., 2021, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
  • Religious Behavioral Identification Form, 2021, PsycTESTS Dataset

Frequent co-authors working with Vallacher include:

  • Andrzej Nowak
  • Ryszard Praszkier
  • Agnieszka Rychwalska
  • Michał Żochowski
  • Jay L. Michaels

Their publications appear in journals and venues such as:

  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Journal of Personality
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

In addition to journal articles, Vallacher has published a book titled In Sync in 2020 under Springer Nature.

Best Publications

  • What do people think they're doing? Action identification and human behavior.

    Robin R. Vallacher;Daniel M. Wegner

  • Levels of personal agency: Individual variation in action identification.

    Robin R. Vallacher;Daniel M. Wegner

  • A Theory Of Action Identification

    Robin R. Vallacher;Daniel M. Wegner

  • Dynamical Systems in Social Psychology

    Robin R. Vallacher;Andrzej Nowak

  • Dynamical Social Psychology

    Andrzej Nowak;Robin R. Vallacher

  • Implicit Psychology: An Introduction to Social Cognition

    Daniel M. Wegner;Robin R. Vallacher

  • The Dynamical Perspective in Personality and Social Psychology

    Robin R. Vallacher;Stephen J. Read;Andrzej Nowak

  • The Emergence of Dynamical Social Psychology

    Robin R. Vallacher;Andrzej Nowak

  • Society of self: The emergence of collective properties in self-structure.

    Andrzej Nowak;Robin R. Vallacher;Abraham Tesser;Wojciech Borkowski

  • Social networks applied

    S. Staab;P. Domingos;P. Mike;J. Golbeck

  • Intractable Conflict as an Attractor A Dynamical Systems Approach to Conflict Escalation and Intractability

    Peter T. Coleman;Robin R. Vallacher;Andrzej Nowak;Lan Bui-Wrzosinska

  • Rethinking Intractable Conflict: The Perspective of Dynamical Systems

    Robin R. Vallacher;Peter T. Coleman;Andrzej Nowak;Lan Bui-Wrzosinska

  • The emergence of action

    Daniel M. Wegner;Robin R. Vallacher;Gary Macomber;Russell Wood

  • Action identification theory.

    Robin R. Vallacher;Daniel M. Wegner

  • The Emergence of Personality: Dynamic Foundations of Individual Variation.

    Aandrzej Nowak;Aandrzej Nowak;Robin R. Vallacher;Michal Zochowski

  • The Self in Social Psychology

    Daniel M. Wegner;Robin R. Vallacher

  • Intrinsic Dynamics of Social Judgment

    Robin R. Vallacher;Andrzej Nowak;J. Kaufman

  • That's easy for you to say: action identification and speech fluency.

    Robin R. Vallacher;Daniel M. Wegner;Maria P. Somoza

  • The Dynamics of Self-Evaluation

    Robin R. Vallacher;Andrzej Nowak;Michael Froehlich;Matthew Rockloff

  • Action identification in the emergence of social behavior.

    Daniel M. Wegner;Robin R. Vallacher;George W. Kiersted;Denise Dizadji

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel M. Wegner
Daniel M. Wegner Harvard University
Stephen J. Read
Stephen J. Read University of Southern California
Todd K. Shackelford
Todd K. Shackelford Oakland University
Melvin J. Lerner
Melvin J. Lerner University of Waterloo
David F. Bjorklund
David F. Bjorklund Florida Atlantic University
David E. Conroy
David E. Conroy Pennsylvania State University
Abraham Tesser
Abraham Tesser University of Georgia

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