VITA Robin R. Vallacher Department of Psychology Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, Florida 33431 Phone: (561) 297-3371 E-Mail: [email protected] FAX: (561) 297-2160 WEB: www.psy.fau.edu/~vallacher http://web.me.com/vallacher Education B.A. San Diego State University, 1969 (B.A. with Highest Honors; Phi Kappa Phi) M.A. Michigan State University, 1972 Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1975 (NSF Trainee, 1970-1974) Professional Experience • Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, San Diego, California, summers, 1970, 1971 • Department of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1975-1985 • Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 1985 to date • Research Affiliate, Center for Complex Systems, University of Warsaw, Poland, 1997 to date • Research Affiliate, Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity, Columbia University, 2008 to date • Visiting Scholar: o Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 1982 o Psychological Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland, 1990 o Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich, Germany, 1992 o Department of Psychology, University of Montpellier 1, France, 2007 Membership in Professional Organizations • American Association for the Advancement of Science • Association for Psychological Science (Fellow) • American Psychological Association • International Association of Conflict Management • North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity • Society of Experimental Social Psychology • Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2 Teaching Experience Undergraduate Introductory Psychology Psychology for Business Majors Social Psychology Social Psychology for Business Majors Social Cognition Experimental Studies of Personality Research Methods Honors Seminar Directed Independent Study Research in Dynamical Social Psychology Graduate Advanced Social Psychology Social Psychology (M.B.A. program) Group Dynamics Attitude Measurement Social Cognition Self-Concept and Behavior Advanced Social Behavior Experimental Studies of Personality Mind and Action Paradigmatic Issues in Psychology Evolutionary Psychology Dynamical Social Psychology Conflict and Complexity Awards and Honors • Nominee, Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Lewis College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1977-1978, 1980-1981. • Certificate of Appreciation, Weekend B.B.A. Program, Florida Atlantic University, 1991 • Winner, first annual Teacher Incentive Program (TIP) award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, Florida Atlantic University, 1993. • Nominee, Teacher of the Year, College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, 1995- 1996. • Certificate of Appreciation for Distinguished Teaching, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 1996-1997. • Honorable Mention, Distinguished Teacher of the Year, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 1997-1998. • Winner, Professorial Excellence Program (PEP) award, Florida Atlantic University, 1998. • Psychology Professor of the Year, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 1998-1999. 3 Publications Books Wegner, D. M. & Vallacher, R. R. (1977). Implicit psychology: An introduction to social cognition. New York: Oxford University Press. Wegner, D. M. & Vallacher, R. R. (Eds.) (1980). The self in social psychology. New York: Oxford University Press. Vallacher, R. R. & Wegner, D. M. (1985). A theory of action identification. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Wegner, D. M. & Vallacher, R. R. (1987). Implicit psychology: An introduction to social cognition. New York: Oxford University Press/Sogensha. (Japanese translation) Vallacher, R. R. & Nowak, A. (Eds.) (1994). Dynamical systems in social psychology. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Nowak, A. & Vallacher, R. R. (1998). Dynamical social psychology. New York: Guilford Press. Coleman, P. T., Vallacher, R. R., Nowak, A., Bui-Wrzosinska, L., Bartoli, A., Liebovitch, L., Musallam, N., & Kugler, K. (2011). The five percent: Finding solutions to seemingly impossible conflicts. Philadelphia, PA: Perseus Books Group. Book Chapters Vallacher, R. R. (1980). An introduction to self theory. In D. M. Wegner & R. R. Vallacher (Eds.), The self in social psychology (pp. 3-30). New York: Oxford University Press. Vallacher, R. R., Wegner, D. M., & Hoine, H. (1980). A postcript on application. In D. M. Wegner & R. R. Vallacher (Eds.), The self in social psychology (pp. 252-264). New York: Oxford University Press. Wegner, D. M. & Vallacher, R. R. (1981). Common-sense psychology. In J. Forgas (Ed.), Social cognition: Perspectives on everyday understanding (pp. 225-246). London: Academic Press. Wegner, D. M. & Vallacher, R. R. (1986). Action identification. In R. M. Sorrentino & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Handbook of motivation and cognition: Foundations of social behavior (pp. 550-582). New York: Guilford Press. Vallacher, R. R. (1989). Action identification as theory and metatheory. In D. W. Schumann (Ed.), Proceedings of the Society for Consumer Psychology (pp. 63-68). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. Vallacher, R. R. (1993). Mental calibration: Forging a working relationship between mind and action. In D. M. Wegner & J. W. Pennebaker (Eds.), Handbook of mental control (pp. 443-472). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Vallacher, R. R. & Nowak, A. (1994). The chaos in social psychology. In R. R. Vallacher & A. Nowak (Eds.). Dynamical systems in social psychology (pp. 1-16). San Diego: Academic Press. Vallacher, R. R. & Nowak, A. (1994). The stream of social judgment. In R. R. Vallacher & A. Nowak (Eds.). Dynamical systems in social psychology (pp. 251-277). San Diego: Academic Press. Nowak, A., Lewenstein, M., & Vallacher, R. R. (1994). Toward a dynamical social psychology. In R. R. Vallacher & A. Nowak (Eds.). Dynamical systems in social psychology (pp. 279-293). San Diego: Academic Press. 4 Vallacher, R. R. & Kaufman, J. (1996). Dynamics of action identification: Volatility and structure in the representation of behavior. In P. M. Gollwitzer & J. A. Bargh (Eds.), The psychology of action: Linking motivation and cognition to behavior (pp. 260-282). New York: Guilford Press. Nowak, A. & Vallacher, R. R. (1998). Toward computational social psychology: Cellular automata and neural network models of interpersonal dynamics. In S. J. Read & L. C. Miller (Eds.), Connectionist models of social reasoning and social behavior (pp. 277-311). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Vallacher, R. R., Nowak, A., Markus, J., & Strauss, J. (1998). Dynamics in the coordination of mind and action. In M. Kofta, G. Weary, & G. Sedek (Eds.), Personal control in action: Cognitive and motivational mechanisms (pp. 27-59). New York: Plenum. Nowak, A., Vallacher, R. R., & Burnstein, E. (1998). Computational social psychology: A neural network approach to interpersonal dynamics. In W. Liebrand, A. Nowak, & R. Hegselman (Eds.), Computer modeling and the study of dynamic social processes (pp. 97- 125). New York: Sage. Vallacher, R. R. & Nowak, A. (1999). The dynamics of self-regulation. In R. S. Wyer, Jr. (Ed.), Advances in social cognition (Vol. 12, pp. 241-259). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Vallacher, R. R. & Nowak, A. (2000). Landscapes of self-reflection: Mapping the peaks and valleys of personal assessment. In A. Tesser, R. Felson, & J. Suls (Eds.), Psychological perspectives on self and identity (pp. 35-65). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Nowak, A., Vallacher, R. R., & Borkowski, W. (2000). Modeling the temporal coordination of behavior and internal states. In G. Ballot & G. Weisbuch (Eds.), Applications of simulation to social sciences (pp. 67-86). Oxford, UK: Hermes Science Publications. Vallacher, R. R. & Wegner, D. M. (2000). What do people think they’re doing? Action identification and human behavior. In E. T. Higgins & A. W. Kruglanski (Eds.), Motivational science: Social and personality perspectives (pp. 215-228). Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press. (Reprinted from Vallacher, R. R. & Wegner, D. M. (1987), Psychological Review, 94, 3-15.) Nowak, A. & Vallacher, R. R. (2001). Societal transition: Toward a dynamical model of social change. In W. Wosinska, R. B. Cialdini, D. W. Barrett, & J. Reykowski (Eds.), The practice of social influence in multiple cultures (pp. 151-171). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Nowak, A., Vallacher, R. R., & Zochowski, M. (2002). The emergence of personality: Personal stability through interpersonal synchronization. In D. Cervone & W. Mischel (Eds.), Advances in personality science (Vol. 1, pp. 292-331). New York: Guilford Publications. Vallacher, R. R., Nowak, A., & Miller, M. E. (2003). Social influence and group dynamics. In I. Weiner (Series Ed.) & T. Millon & M. J. Lerner (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of psychology: Vol. 5. Personality and social psychology (pp. 383-417). New York: Wiley. Nowak, A. & Vallacher, R. R. (2003). Computational models of social processes. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Vol. 4, Article 639, pp. 81-84). London: Nature Publishing Group (Macmillan Publishers). Nowak, A. & Vallacher, R. R. (2003). Synchronization dynamics in close relationships: Coupled logistic maps as a model for interpersonal phenomena. In W. Klonowski (Series Ed.), Frontiers on nonlinear dynamics: Vol. 2. From quanta to societies (pp. 165-180). Berlin: Pabst Science Publishers. 5 Vallacher, R. R. & Nowak, A. (2006). Coherence in human experience and psychological science. In P. Van Lange (Ed.), Bridging social psychology: The benefits of transdisciplinary