Thesis (M.A.)--University of Notre Dame, 2008. / Thesis directed by Lynette P. Spillman for the Department of Sociology. "July 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-80).

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. / Ph. D.

陳濤. / Adviser: Wan Chi Wong. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-09, Section: B, page: . / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-172). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Chen Tao.