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From: "Human Potential & Development."
Split Justification: Development fundamentally involves both our inner landscape (**Internal World**) and our interaction with everything outside us (**External World**). (Ref: Subject-Object Distinction)..
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From: "External World (Interaction)"
Split Justification: All external interactions fundamentally involve either other human beings (social, cultural, relational, political) or the non-human aspects of existence (physical environment, objects, technology, natural world). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Interaction with Humans"
Split Justification: All human interaction can be fundamentally categorized by its primary focus: either on the direct connection and relationship between specific individuals (from intimate bonds to fleeting encounters), or on the individual's engagement within and navigation of larger organized human collectives, their rules, roles, and systems. This dichotomy provides a comprehensive and distinct division between person-to-person dynamics and person-to-society dynamics.
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From: "Social Systems and Structures"
Split Justification: All social systems and structures can be fundamentally categorized by whether their rules, roles, and organization are explicitly codified, institutionalized, and formally enforced (formal systems), or are unwritten, emergent, culturally embedded, and maintained through custom, tradition, and implicit social pressure (informal systems). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as a system's primary mode of operation is either formal or informal, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all aspects of collective human organization.
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From: "Informal Social Systems"
Split Justification: All informal social systems can be fundamentally divided into two mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive categories: those focused on the collective, unwritten understandings, values, beliefs, traditions, and customs that guide behavior (Shared Meaning and Norms), and those focused on the spontaneous, interactional processes and structures of influence, status, reputation, and cohesion that arise within groups (Emergent Social Dynamics). One describes the content and collective interpretation of the informal system, while the other describes the interactive mechanisms and relational outcomes.
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From: "Emergent Social Dynamics"
Split Justification: ** All emergent social dynamics can be fundamentally divided into the active, ongoing processes of interaction that generate them (such as influence attempts, social signaling, and reciprocal exchanges) and the more stable, patterned configurations that arise as a result of these interactions (such as informal hierarchies, established reputations, and levels of group cohesion). This dichotomy separates the real-time unfolding mechanisms of social activity from the patterned outcomes that define informal social organization, ensuring mutual exclusivity and comprehensive exhaustion.
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From: "Dynamic Interactional Processes"
Split Justification: All dynamic interactional processes can be fundamentally divided into those primarily focused on establishing, conveying, and interpreting shared meaning, symbols, and social understanding among participants, and those primarily focused on actively influencing others' behaviors, states, or coordinating actions to achieve collective or interdependent outcomes. This dichotomy distinguishes between the interpretive and communicative aspects of interaction and the action-oriented, consequential aspects, ensuring mutual exclusivity and comprehensive exhaustion.
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From: "Behavioral Influence and Outcome Coordination Processes"
Split Justification: ** The parent node "Behavioral Influence and Outcome Coordination Processes" inherently describes two distinct categories of interaction. This split formalizes this inherent dichotomy. Behavioral Influence Processes are focused on active attempts to modify the behaviors, decisions, or internal states of other individuals or groups through various means (e.g., persuasion, command, incentive, deterrence). Outcome Coordination Processes, conversely, are focused on the alignment, synchronization, and joint adjustment of multiple actors' actions to achieve shared or interdependent goals and collective outcomes (e.g., cooperation, negotiation for joint plans, task division, resource pooling). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as an interaction's primary aim and dynamic will fall into one category, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all aspects articulated by the parent concept.
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From: "Behavioral Influence Processes"
Split Justification: All behavioral influence processes can be fundamentally divided based on the primary mechanism through which behavioral modification or compliance is sought: either by fostering the target's willing assent, internalization, or alignment of their internal motivations, beliefs, and values (Volitional Alignment Processes), or by directly altering the external consequences, incentives, or constraints faced by the target, compelling or conditioning their behavior irrespective of internal alignment (Coercive and Contingent Control Processes). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as an influence attempt's primary mode is either to cultivate internal motivation or to externally mandate/incentivize action. It is comprehensively exhaustive, covering all fundamental active attempts to modify behavior or internal states, as one either seeks to change internal drivers or external conditions impacting action.
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From: "Coercive and Contingent Control Processes"
Split Justification: All coercive and contingent control processes can be fundamentally divided based on whether they involve the direct application of immediate force, threat, or physical/situational constraint to compel specific behavior without significant perceived choice (Processes of Direct Coercion), or whether they establish a system of external consequences (rewards or punishments) that are conditional upon the target's actions, thereby shaping behavior through the anticipation of these outcomes where choice is retained (Processes of Contingent Control). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as an influence attempt's primary mechanism is either to remove or severely limit choice through direct imposition, or to influence choice through predictable contingent outcomes. It is comprehensively exhaustive, covering all fundamental means of externally compelling or conditioning behavior.
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From: "Processes of Contingent Control"
Split Justification: All processes of contingent control, which shape behavior through conditional external consequences, can be fundamentally divided based on their primary aim and mechanism: either to increase the future likelihood of a desired behavior by providing positive consequences or removing negative ones when the behavior occurs (Processes of Contingent Reinforcement), or to decrease the future likelihood of an undesired behavior by providing negative consequences or removing positive ones when the behavior occurs (Processes of Contingent Punishment). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as an intervention's primary functional goal is either to promote or suppress a behavior, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all fundamental ways in which behavior is shaped through contingent external consequences.
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From: "Processes of Contingent Reinforcement"
Split Justification: All processes of contingent reinforcement, aimed at increasing the likelihood of a desired behavior through conditional external consequences, can be fundamentally divided based on the nature of the consequence applied: either by adding a desirable stimulus or event (positive reinforcement) or by removing an undesirable or aversive stimulus or event (negative reinforcement) when the target behavior occurs. This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as the consequence is either added or removed, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all fundamental mechanisms by which contingent consequences increase behavior.
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Topic: "Processes of Negative Reinforcement" (W7004)