Self-Esteem as a Complex Dynamic System: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Microlevel Dynamics

Figure 5

Empirical examples of self-esteem attractor time series across the dyadic interaction for two participants (a and b). The grey bars indicate the duration of time (i.e., seconds) that the self-esteem attractors (1 and 2) are expressed.

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