Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Lawless, W. F.
URN	etd-12222005-090625
Title	Lewinian interdependence theory, dynamics, and tension systems : an application to social support and game theory
Degree	PhD
Department	Psychology
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title No Advisors Found
Keywords	Social interaction. Interpersonal relations. Field theory (Social psychology) Game theory.
Date of Defense	1992-02-05
Availability	restricted
Abstract Social 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.
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