Robin R. Vallacher

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Research Interests

• Dynamical Social Psychology
• Action Identification
• Social Judgment
• Self-Concept
• Interpersonal Dynamics
• Conflict and Social Justice

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.
• 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.
• 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. (2006). Self-concept. In N. J. Salkind & K. DeRuyck (Eds.), The encyclopedia of human development. New York: Sage Publications.
• Vallacher, R. R. (2009). Self: The unity of self, self-consistency. In W. P. Banks (Ed.), Encyclopedia of consciousness (Vol. 2, pp. 313-325). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Ltd.

Articles

• Seymour, G. E., Gunderson, E. K. E., & Vallacher, R. R. (1973). Clustering 34 occupational groups by personality dimensions. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 33, 267-284.
• Vallacher, R. R. (1978). Objective self awareness and the perception of others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 63-67.
• Vallacher, R. R. & Solodky, M. (1979). Objective self awareness, standards of evaluation, and moral behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 15, 254-262.
• Feldman-Rotman, S. & Vallacher, R. R. (1982). The dual-career family and children's sex-role preferences. International Journal of Sociology of the Family, 12, 165-173.
• Vallacher, R. R., Wegner, D. M., & Frederick, J. (1987). The presentation of self through action identification. Social Cognition, 5, 301-322.
• Wegner, D. M., Vallacher, R. R., & Dizadji, D. M. (1989). Do alcoholics know what they're doing? Identifications of the act of drinking. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 10, 197-210.
• Vallacher, R. R., & Wegner, D. M. (1989). Levels of personal agency: Individual variation in action identification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 660-671.
• Vallacher, R. R., Wegner, D. M., McMahan, S. C., Cotter, J., & Larsen, K. A. (1992). On winning friends and influencing people: Action identification and self-presentation success. Social Cognition, 10, 335-355.
• Vallacher, R. R. (1992). Come back to the future. Psychological Inquiry, 3, 348-350.
• Vallacher, R. R. (1997). Grave matters. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 50-54.
• Rudich, E. & Vallacher, R. R. (1999). To belong or to self-enhance? The motivational bases for choosing interaction partners. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 1387-1404.
• Nowak, A., Vallacher, R. R., Tesser, A., & Borkowski, W. (2000). Society of self: The emergence of collective properties in self-structure. Psychological Review, 107, 39-61.
• Vallacher, R. R., Read, S. J., & Nowak, A. (2002). The dynamical perspective in personality and social psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 264-273.
• Vallacher, R. R., Nowak, A., Froehlich, M., & Rockloff, M. (2002). The dynamics of self-evaluation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 370-379.
• Nowak, A., Vallacher, R. R., & Zochowski, M. (2005). The emergence of personality: Dynamic foundations of individual variation. Developmental Review, 25, 351-385.
• Nowak, A., Strawinska, U., Johnson, S., & Vallacher, R. R. (2005). Malfunction of self-regulation in low self-esteem and depression. Psychology Colloquia, 13, 67-83.
• Murphy, S. M., Vallacher, R. R., Shackelford, T. K., Bjorklund, D. F., & Yunger, J. L. (2006). Relationship experience as a predictor of romantic jealousy. Personality and Individual Differences, 40, 761-769.