Complexity Management Theory: Motivation for Ideological Rigidity and Social Conflict
Channel: Bevry Podcast
Date: 2020-11-07

Today we are discussing Jordan B Peterson's and Joseph L Flanders' research paper: Complexity Management Theory: Motivation for Ideological Rigidity and Social Conflict

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11235376_Complexity_Management_Theory_Motivation_for_Ideological_Rigidity_and_Social_Conflict

## ABSTRACT ##

We are doomed to formulate conceptual structures that are much simpler than the complex phenomena they are attempting to account for. These simple conceptual structures shield us, pragmatically, from real-world complexity, but also fail, frequently, as some aspect of what we did not take into consideration makes itself manifest. The failure of our concepts dysregulates our emotions and generates anxiety, necessarily, as the unconstrained world is challenging and dangerous. Such dysregulation can turn us into rigid, totalitarian dogmatists, as we strive to maintain the structure of our no longer valid beliefs. Alternatively, we can face the underlying complexity of experience, voluntarily, gather new information, and recast and reconfigure the structures that underly our habitable worlds.

Key Words: belief, religion, ideology, category, object, novelty, anxiety, frame problem, exploration, amygdala, prefrontal cortex

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