Emilio Fe rrer\, University of California\, Davis
Statistical and exploratory models for studying dynamics in social interactions
Two important goals in the study of social interactions are: (a) the identification of patterns r epresentative of the dynamics among the units in the system (e.g.\, parent- child\, teacher-student\, husband-wife)\, and (b) the use of such patterns to make predictions about the (future) state of the system. In this talk\, I present longitudinal models to extract dynamics from intensive data refle cting dyadic interactions. I describe theoretical models that can capture s uch interactions and offer approaches to apply those models to empirical da ta. The approaches include statistical and mathematical models as well as e xploratory techniques. In addition to extracting information about the dyna mics of the system\, I describe methods to evaluate the validity of the dyn amics to make predictions of future states of the system.
Emilio Ferrer is a Professor in the Department o f Psychology at the University of California\, Davis. He received his B.S. in Physical Education from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid\, his B.A. in Sociology from Universidad de Alicante\, Spain\, and his Ph.D. in Quantitat ive Psychology from the University of Virginia\, working with Jack McArdle and John Nesselrdade. His research focuses on methods to analyze change and intra-individual variability\, in particular latent growth analysis and li near and nonlinear dynamical systems. His current research in this area inv olves techniques to model dyadic interactions and the development of fluid reasoning. He is co-editor of the recent volume Statistical Methods for Mod eling Human Dynamics and author of the upcoming Dynamics of Dyadic Interact ions.
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