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Theory

The theoretical background of the research and development at the Human Behavior Laboratory is indicated in:

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      Magnusson, M. S. (2000). "Discovering Hidden Time Patterns in Behavior: T-Patterns and their Detection." Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 32(1): pp. 93-110.
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      Magnusson, M.S. (1996) "Hidden Real-Time Patterns in Intra- and Inter-Individual Behavior: Description and Detection." European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol. 12, Issue 2, p. 112-123. See also references.

The basic viewpoints can be suggested through the following citations:

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      "The activity of man constitutes a structural whole, in such a way that it cannot be subdivided into neat "parts" or "levels" or "compartments" insulated in character, content, and organization from other behavior. Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such." (Pike, 1960, p. 2).
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      "Behavior consists of patterns in time. Investigations of behavior deal with sequences that, in contrast to bodily characteristics, are not always visible." (Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1970, p. 1; Opening statement of Ethology: The Biology of Behavior. Emphasis added).
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      "...we need to identify the countless patterns and natural sequences of behavior occurring whenever persons come into one another's immediate presence." (E. Goffman, 1967; here cited from A. Kendon, 1990, p. ix).
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      "Occasions of interaction are, most of the time, ordered affairs. When two people greet one another, when several sustain a conversation, when a committee meets to conduct its business, when people pass one another on the street, most of the time these are ordered occasions in the sense that they "come off" in an unnoticed fashion." (Kendon, 1990, p. 1).
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      "An occasion of interaction such as a conversation, thus, may be looked upon as an occasion in which the participants enter into a complex system of relationships which nonetheless may be understood in terms of general principles which are discoverable and generally applicable, even though the course of any specific encounter is unique (cf. Kendon 1963, Argyle and Kendon 1967)." (Kendon, 1990 p. 4). Emphasis added.

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