Andrzej Nowak
Andrzej Nowak is a permanent half-time faculty member of the Psychology Department at Florida Atlantic University. He is also Director of the Center for Complex Systems at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and he holds faculty positions at University of Warsaw as well as the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Professor Nowak is one of the world's leading experts on the modeling and computer simulation of social processes. Using cellular automata, he has modeled the emergence of public opinion in society and linear versus non-linear societal transitions. At Florida Atlantic University, he conducts both simulation and experimental research in the Dynamical Social Psychology Laboratory in collaboration with Dr. Robin Vallacher.
Current research projects include the use of cellular automata to simulate the emergence and maintenance of self-concept and linear and non-linear scenarios of societal change, the use of attractor neural networks to model interpersonal and group dynamics, and the use of coupled dynamical systems to simulate the emergence of personality through social coordination. Dr. Nowak is also developing software for identifying attractors (equilibrium states) in the temporal patterns of thought and emotion on the part of people diagnosed with various forms of mental illness.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Communication, Language
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Internet and Virtual Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Personality, Individual Differences
Research Group or Laboratory:
- Dynamical Social Psychology Laboratory
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Books:
- Nowak, A., & Vallacher, R. R. (1998). Dynamical social psychology. New York: Guilford Publications.
- Praszkier, R., & Nowak, A. (2012). Social entrepreneurship: Theory and practice. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Vallacher, R., R., Read, S. J., & Nowak, A. (Eds.). (2017). Computational social psychology. New York: Routledge.
Journal Articles:
- Nowak, A. (2004). Dynamical minimalism: Why less is more in psychology? Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8(2), 183-193.
- Nowak, A., Vallacher, R. R., Tesser, A., & Borkowski, W. (2000). Society of self: The emergence of collective properties in self-structure. Psychological Review, 17, 39-61.
Other 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.
Courses Taught:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Dynamical Social Psychology
- Social Networks
Andrzej Nowak
Department of Psychology
230 Behavioral Sciences Building
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida 33431-0991
United States of America
- Phone: (561) 297-3372
- Fax: (561) 297-2160
