Originally Posted by
Kioshi
The structural model I use has initiative and dominance variables as the principle components of personality. These variables are associated with autonomic-interactional states which have pretty much been the staple of literature on territorial ("social") behavior.
Later literature also takes into account reticular arousal. The model I use includes values for what might be called information overload/underload.
So far I haven't gotten anywhere in my efforts to discuss social physiology. It's difficult because terms that have precise meanings in biology often have various and even contradictory meanings in popular culture. So I'm forced to present it in a more abstract manner, which doesn't seem to work either.
I deleted most of the stuff on territorial behavior. I shifted to a learning theoretic perspective so that I could introduce the cultural variables through the view of culture as a system of symbols. I wrote a paragraph on that. But I haven't really done anything since.