Title: Chaos theory in psychology and the life sciences /
Authors: Robertson, Robin, 1944-; Combs, Allan, 1942-
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Philosophy; Psychotherapy; Social Sciences; Models, Theoretical; Nonlinear Dynamics; Psychological Theory; Chaotic behavior in systems; Psychology; Life sciences; Philosophy
Contents: Foreword / Walter J. Freeman -- 1. Chaos Theory and the Relationship Between Psychology and Science / Robin Robertson -- 2. Chaos, Evolution, and Deep Ecology / Sally Goerner -- 3. The Tower of Babel in Nonlinear Dynamics: Toward the Clarification of Terms / Jeffrey Goldstein -- 4. The Nostril Cycle: A Study in the Methodology of Chaos Science / Allan Combs and Michael Winkler -- 5. Constraint, Complexity, and Chaos: A Methodological Follow-Up on the Nostril Cycle / Tracy L. Brown and Allan Combs -- 6. Anger, Fear, Depression, and Crime: Physiological and Psychological Studies Using the Process Method / Hector C. Sabelli, Linnea Carlson-Sabelli, M. Patel, A. Levy and Justo Diez-Martin -- 7. Is There Evidence for Chaos in the Human Central Nervous System? / Paul E. Rapp -- 8. Naturally Occurring Computational Systems / William Sulis -- 9. Belief Systems as Attractors / Ben Goertzel -- 10. A Cognitive Law of Motion / Ben Goertzel.