Target in Control Social Influence as Distributed Information Processing /

• Main Authors: Nowak, Andrzej K. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Vallacher, Robin R. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Rychwalska, Agnieszka (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Roszczyńska-Kurasińska, Magdalena (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ziembowicz, Karolina (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Biesaga, Mikolaj (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kacprzyk-Murawska, Marta (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Complexity,
• Subjects: Personality.; Social psychology.; Social sciences-Data processing.; Social sciences-Computer programs.; Behavioral sciences.; Behavioral economics.; Application software.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Computational Social Sciences.; Behavioral Sciences.; Behavioral/Experimental Economics.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.

This concise monograph introduces and examines social influence from the perspective of the so-called target, rather than from the source, thus providing for the first time a bidirectional account of this pervasive social phenomenon, further bridging simple micro-level dyadic interaction rules with...

Table of Contents:

• Social Influence as Socially Distributed Information Processing
• Experimental Verification
• The Social Group as an Information Processing System
• Epilogue
• References Keywords for subject index.