Temporal Context and Temporal Patterning

Temporal factors are pervasive in social psychological phenomena, both as features of the temporal context within which social-psychological processes are embedded and as features of the patterning of those behavioral processes themselves. Yet temporal issues have not been given very much attention in current mainstream social psychology. This paper is an attempt to lay out some concepts and terms that may be useful for conceptualizing social psychology within a perspective that gives more attention to such temporal factors. It deals with temporal issues in conceptual substantive and methodological domains.