Social psychology and psychophysics : laying the foundation -- Milgram's drawing power of crowds and social impact theory -- Revisiting Milgram's 1978 "response to intrusion into waiting lines" experiment -- Applying the queue transform to experiments outside the queue -- From the queue to the commons -- Defining an algebraic group in social space -- History as data
Summary
"An Algebraic Structure for Basic Western Social Systems in Social Space offers a new and unique approach to social intragroup interaction by using mathematics and psychophysics to create a mathematical model based on social psychological theories. This is fascinating reading for academics and advanced students interested in political theory, detection theory, social psychology, organizational behavior, psychophysics, and applied mathematics in the social and information sciences"-- Provided by publisher
