noun

• The theory that there are two entities, mind and body, each of which can have an effect on the other.

  ‘Hence interactionism violates physical closure after all.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The dualistic theory known as interactionism is most commonly associated with Descartes.’
  • ‘With the advent of interactionism and labelling theory in the 1960s, attention turned to the importance of societal reaction in constructing deviant or delinquent acts.’
  • ‘Symbolic interactionism studies how humans interact symbolically with one another and with themselves, and in doing so make decisions about risk, themselves, and their actions.’
  • ‘Symbolic interactionism continued to flourish into the post World War II Era.’