[Biomedical-cybernetics] The #5 reason for submitting an abstract for the 25th Annual International SCTPLS Conference

[Guastello, Stephen]

The #5 reason for submitting an abstract for the 25th Annual  
International SCTPLS Conference is…

Escaping the heat by imagining the infinite fractal distance between  
Gainesville Florida and the Earth’s Equator!



We are excited that
Robin R. Vallacher, PhD
will be one of our keynote speakers at the
25th Annual International Conference
29-31 July, 2015
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Celebrate with us 25 consecutive years of nonlinear dynamics  
conferences!

Dynamical Social Psychology:
Embracing (finally!) the Nonlinear Nature of Human Experience

For decades, the dominant paradigms in social psychology tried to  
impose tidy models of linear causality on the decidedly untidy and  
nonlinear dynamic processes of mind and action.  True to the nature of  
nonlinear change, the traditional approach has become destabilized due  
to internal incoherence and is giving way to new paradigms that  
promise greater coherence, precision, and generalizability in  
capturing the nature of human experience.  This phase transition is  
due in large part to the advent of sophisticated methods and tools  
(e.g., computer simulations, time series).  I will highlight a tool  
developed in my lab that captures the internally generated  
(“intrinsic”) patterns of psychological processes, and describe new  
insights into the dynamics of self-evaluation, social judgment, close  
relations, and intractable conflict revealed by this tool.  I will  
conclude by proposing how the nonlinear dynamical systems approach may  
provide integration for the diverse subject matter of social psychology.

Robin Vallacher is a professor of Psychology, Florida Atlantic  
University, and a visiting scholar at University of Bern, Switzerland,  
and Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, and the  
Center for Complex Systems, Warsaw University.  Dr. Vallacher has  
investigated a wide variety of topics, from principles of social  
cognition, action identification, and self-concept, to issues in  
social justice, social change, and international conflict. His current  
work employs a dynamical systems framework to identify the invariant  
properties underlying these phenomena. Using experimentation and  
computer simulations, he and his colleagues have been investigating  
the dynamic underpinnings of self-regulation, social judgment, close  
relations, inter-group conflict, and the emergence of personality from  
social interaction. Dr. Vallacher has published several books,  
including two with Andrzej Nowak that develop the implications of  
dynamical systems for social psychology. His most recent opus is,  
Attracted to Conflict: Dynamic Foundations of Destructive Social  
Relations (Publ. Springer).


WE WANT TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR WORK, TOO!

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS, SYMPOSIA, AND POSTERS

Submissions deadline is April 30, 2015.

Submit your abstract(s) electronically at

http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2015/cfp




  
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