Social Interaction Observed: Some Approaches to the Analysis of Behavior Streams
- 1 October 1976
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 2 (4) , 335-345
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727600200403
Abstract
Systematic observation of social interaction, noting the presence or absence of predefined behaviors in an ongoing stream of behavior, can result in an overwhelming mass of data. The central thesis of this report is that a few simple conceptual and analytic tools greatly facilitate the handling of such data. Various ways of representing observational data are discussed, and implications are included showing analyses of mother-infant, monkey- monkey, and human adult-adult interaction.Keywords
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