<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "><em><strong>Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences</strong></em></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is looking for a few good review articles on applications of nonlinear dynamics to psychology and the life and social sciences. Successful articles should include summaries of problems, research strategies and results, and original insights regarding possible directions for nonlinear science. They should also be attentive to the roles of attractors, bifurcations, chaos, self-organization, and related nonlinear formalisms as defined in the journal's purview (</span><a href="http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/ndpls"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">www.societyforchaostheory.org/ndpls</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">) Review manuscripts should be prepared in the APA/NDPLS style; instructions for authors appear on the journal web site.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Topic choices should be primarily substantive rather than methodological. Critiques of methodologies, if warranted, are important facets of review articles, however. When composing the review, authors should be mindful of reviews or special issues published already in NDPLS (and possibly other journals), relevant book chapters, and various special issues of NDPLS (see list on the journal's web site). </span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Reviews of any application area of nonlinear dynamics within the journal's purview are welcome, although we have a couple suggestions. It is possible that some of the following suggestions could withstand more than one review that focus on different aspects of the phenomena.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">1.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>The optimum variability principle</em>: It is now well known that healthy heart rate variability is chaotic and not rigidly oscillating. The principle of healthy variability has extended to other biomedical and psychological phenomena. What is the status of the research in any of the application areas?</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">2.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>"Emergence"</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has become a popular concept both inside and outside of the sphere of nonlinear dynamical systems (NDS) research. How many different processes for emergence have been proposed (e.g. phase shifts, power laws, boundary dynamics)? How does one conduct empirical research with any of them to support a conclusion regarding what has emerged and how? Has anyone successfully separated bottom-up and top-down portions of the process empirically? What are the statuses of these research areas?</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">3.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Related to suggestion #2 above</em>, some researchers have suggested that multi-level modeling, which is based on a distinctively linear form of analysis, is necessary to assess instances of emergence or the impact of the impact of emergent events on group or collective behaviors. Has this strategy, recommendation, or approach produced any results of interest to nonlinear science? If so, what formal dynamics were expressed or implied by the source research? How could nonlinear experimental designs and analyses move the state of the science forward?</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">4. Network theory has blossomed in the last decade, although its roots can be traced to mathematical social psychology from the early 1950s. There are some important nonlinear constructs involved in some of the work, although a good deal of what has been written seems to have taken on a life of its own. The potential review question is what nonlinear principles are in evidence, and how has the combination of network and NDS constructs enlightened out understanding of (pick one) neuroscience, market behavior, political behavior, or economics?</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">If you are interested in writing a review, please send an e-mail to the Editor in Chief<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">with an abstract of what you plan to write, and an estimated time of arrival for the first reviewable draft. Based on the responses we receive, we can gauge whether it would be more advantageous to the authors, readers, and journal planning to publish the reviews individually or aggregate material into one or more special issues.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">As always, NDPLS invites all the empirical, methodological, and theoretical studies that fall within our purview year round. We look forward to hearing from you at your soonest opportunity.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Best regards,</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "></p><div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Stephen J. Guastello, Ph.D.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="tahoma">Professor of Psychology, Marquette University</font></div><div><font size="2" face="tahoma">P. O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 USA</font></div><div><font size="2" face="tahoma">Editor-in-Chief,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences</em></font></div><div><em><font size="2"><a href="mailto:stephen.guastello@marquette.edu">stephen.guastello@marquette.edu</a></font></em></div><div><br></div><div><font size="2" face="tahoma"></font> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></body></html>