VIAPPL

VIAPPL is a software platform that allows researchers to conduct experiments in social interaction. Since social interaction is the foundation of social life this platform allows researchers to test a wide range of social and psychological hypothesis... Recent developments in social psychology have highlighted the strategic nature of social action, that social identities and norms emerge in interaction, and the need for dynamic explanations of the conservation and change of social structures and outcomes. VIAPPL is an experimental technology for conducting such research... History teaches us that change is the only constant; and that social norms and meanings emerge through interaction. Social psychology and the behavioural sciences so far have relied on between-group analyses of individual difference that are oriented towards studying stasis and conformity. VIAPPL offers a platform that potentially allows us to explore how social norms, practices and meanings emerge through..