A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory
A Formative Trait Psychology with Affect, Cognition and Behaviour

This book presents a new agency paradigm that can resolve complex socio-political situations in cross-cultural environments.

Maurice Yolles (Author), Gerhard Fink (Author)

9781108833325, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 July 2021

350 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 4.1 cm, 0.118 kg

'Yolles and Fink pull off one of the 'great tricks' of personality psychology. They center their analysis on complex systems of psychological mechanisms, yet produce a relatively straightforward, structured scheme for conceptualizing differences among individuals.' Daniel Cervone, Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

This book explains psychological, sociopolitical and organisational change in multidisciplinary settings. It shows how advanced techniques of contextual analysis can be applied to complex situations and offers a new cybernetic agency paradigm based on living systems theory. It models, diagnoses, and analyses complex, realworld situations to anticipate patterns of behaviour.

Part I. Cybernetic Sociopsychology and Agency: 1. Mindset Agency Theory, an Underview
2. An Exercise in Configuration
3. Mindscapes
4. Normative Personality
5. Understanding Formative Traits and Behaviour
Part II. From Cognition to Affect: 6. Cognition Agency
7. Cognition Personality
8. Affect Types and Mindset Types
9. Affect and Cognition
Part III. Modelling Identity Types through Agency
10. Identity as a Component of Personality
11. Modelling Identity Types: The Case of Donald Trump
12. Agency, Personality and Multiple Identity Types: The Case of Theresa May
Part IV. Formalising Mindset Agency Theory: 13. Introduction to Psychohistory and Formalism
14. Illustrating Psychohistory
Part V. Concluding Chapter: 15. Overview.

Subject Areas: The self, ego, identity, personality [JMS], Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Behavioural theory [Behaviourism JMAL]