<html><head><base href="x-msg://19/"></head><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; 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" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; z-index: auto; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); ">The #4 reason for submitting an abstract for this year’s conference is…</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); ">Because history proves that the desert is the BEST place for big breakthroughs in human discovery!</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong></strong> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS, SYMPOSIA, AND POSTERS</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); "><em> To present at the</em></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong>Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences</strong><br><strong>26th Annual International Conference</strong><br><strong>29-31 JULY, 2016</strong><br><strong>UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY, UT USA</strong><br><strong><img title="HelpingHand.png" id="f4be4f4f-db2d-4d89-bc93-bedaede15043" height="459" width="473" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" style="width: 121px; " src="cid:91670020-314e-4ba6-a995-b9a79ce1e019"> </strong><br><strong>Submissions deadline is April 30, 2016</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong>Celebrating 25 years!</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); "><em>Submit your abstract(s) electronically: </em></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/cfp"><strong>http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/cfp</strong></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong style="font-size: 10pt; "><em>Celebrating 25 years! </em></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Celebrating the 26th consecutive year of annual conferences, the 2016 Annual International SCTPLS Conference will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, July 29-31, 2016, at the University of Utah!</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><strong>Make your travel plans now!</strong><strong> </strong>Our work has never been stronger or in higher demand. The Annual International SCTPLS Conference provides a one of a kind opportunity to showcase one's achievements, to keep up with advances in nonlinear science, and to network with international colleagues. Providing a small, focused conference with broad interdisciplinary and international scope, this summer is the time to share your interesting work among those who truly "get it."</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Once again, the conference kicks off with a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">don't-miss preconference workshop on nonlinear methods. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">In addition to our special invited keynotes - Gus Koehler and Glenda Eoyang - the 2016 conference will include single papers and symposia, concurrent sessions, and a poster session. Participants will include an international group of psychologists, physicists, mathematicians, researchers and others who all share a common focus on the investigation and applications of nonlinear dynamics to psychology and the life sciences. </span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Everyone is looking forward to seeing you and catching up on your good work at the conference this summer. Make those travel plans now!</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><strong>How you and your work can make a contribution…</strong> </span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">We invite scholars and practitioners interested in working together to turn one of the best-kept secrets on the planet into THE WAY to research nonlinear dynamical systems and to develop practice-approaches that will serve the world in areas such as healthcare, education/academia, as well as our social and physical environment. Presentations and conversations will explore practice applications and enhance knowledge of chaos theory, fractals, complex systems and related topics. Over the years, the annual conferences of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences have inspired and supported people from many disciplines to become leaders in theoretical, empirical and practice applications. Steadily, we are building a knowledge base that provides an integrated approach to life sciences, health and wellness, global peace and environmental sustainability.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong style="font-size: 10pt; ">INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACTS</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong style="font-size: 10pt; ">Length</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">· Abstracts are between 150-250 words for posters, individual papers, short workshops and other alternative formats. Clear connections to nonlinear dynamics, chaos, complexity, fractals or related concepts are important. Include each speaker or author’s organizational affiliation and/or contact information.<br>· Abstracts for symposia or panel discussions may be longer at up to 500 words. For symposia, it is important to include the content of EACH speaker's contribution. The typical format for a symposium is for all speakers to give presentations with time following for discussion. The typical format for a panel discussion is inquiry-based and dialogic. Please communicate the theme of your research or practice-based applications of nonlinear science within the title of your abstract.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br> <strong>Content</strong></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">· For experimental work, you will want the background, aims and framework, mode of inquiry, methods and samples, outcomes, conclusions and implications to be clear and explicit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>· For panel discussions, you will want to provide a brief overview of and introduction to the topic, relevant background of panelists and sample questions that will be used to prompt your panel member discussion.<br>· For symposia or workshops, you will want to describe your current research, the techniques you used for conducting your research and how it applies to nonlinear behavioral, social and/or life science. Please emphasize the skills and new learning that attendees can expect to acquire.<br>· <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>For all abstracts:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Assist the reader in understanding your connection to nonlinear dynamics, chaos, complexity, fractals and/or related concepts. Please highlight the overall value added to your area of practice (e.g., introduces a new method, information, perspective, issue; calls into question, confirms present knowledge or clarifies understanding). </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br>· <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Choose a category:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The web-submission form allows you to select from the following: 1) Empirical (e.g., presentation of empirical results of a study), 2) Theoretical (e.g., empirically testable theoretical development), 3) Applied (e.g., social, cultural, organizational and/or inter-relational dynamics; business, product and/or marketing development; practice-based applications involving clinical interventions), 4) Quantitative (e.g., computational or statistical modeling), 5) Qualitative (e.g., non-quantitative analysis of empirical data), 6) Philosophical or artistic (e.g., epistemology, philosophy of science, aesthetics, or audio-visual demonstrations).<br> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong style="font-size: 10pt; ">Additional Information</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">· Each person may submit up to two presentations as first author and serve as co-author on additional work submitted by others. <br>· All presenters are invited to prepare your papers for possible publication in the Society’s peer reviewed research journal<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>NDPLS uses American Psychological Association (APA) style. Click JOURNAL on the SCTPLS web site to access Instructions for Authors. NDPLS accepts manuscripts all through the year, but please use October 1, 2016 as the target date for submitting to allow us to make up a special Conference Presentations issue. </span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong style="font-size: 10pt; ">REGISTRATION for the conference and workshops is now open at</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/">http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><img title="rossleronebit600.jpg" id="3e4f607f-fa4b-46a1-ad22-f8f5bf4f0df3" height="397" width="574" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" style="width: 121px; " src="cid:7a419f9b-3df7-4b69-8089-f2071627b68d"></div><img alt="" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; width: 67px; "></div></div><br><hr><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div></div></span></body></html>