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<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: 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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); "><div><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><em><b><span style="color: rgb(75, 165, 36); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">The #1 reason to submit your abstract for this year’s conference is…</span></b></em></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><em><b><span style="color: rgb(75, 165, 36); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; "> </span></b></em></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><em><b><span style="color: rgb(75, 165, 36); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">You get to judge first-hand why SCTPLS sets records on the TLC barometer* when you experience the “warm fuzzy feelings” you’ll have from the way</span></b></em></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><em><b><span style="color: rgb(75, 165, 36); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">we treat you and your work with care, respect, and celebration!</span></b></em></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: right; "><em><b><span style="color: rgb(75, 165, 36); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; "> </span></b></em></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><em><b><span style="color: rgb(75, 165, 36); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">*TLC = Tender Loving Care</span></b></em></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">A message from the President</span></i></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">In all tender, loving seriousness, I sincerely urge everyone who has not already submitted, to use the time between now and the extended May 16 deadline to tune into the attractor here, which is that of the individual and social gains from sharing any and all stages of your work with us at the conference.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">My steady theme has been that we owe it to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>ourselves, others, and the world</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to shine brighter lights on our still-<span style="color: black; ">too-well-kept nonlinear secrets. I say it’s not optional, but rather,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>essential,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>that the power of nonlinear understandings and methods becomes<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>the way<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>to think, to analyze, to research, and to practice whenever we’re dealing with living systems.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span></span></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">I invite you to envision how many sectors of effort would be transforming and more effective</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in; margin-left: 1in; "><span style="color: rgb(146, 208, 80); font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">if they knew what<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>you</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>know?</span><b><span style="color: rgb(146, 208, 80); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in; margin-left: 1in; "><span style="color: rgb(146, 208, 80); font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">if they learned about and emulated what<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>you</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>do?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span></span><b><span style="color: rgb(146, 208, 80); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></b></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">See the Call for Abstracts below, submit your work, and come shine your light!</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">“If not us, who?”<span> </span></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">With warm wishes,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><img src="cid:5B131B12-71F9-4982-B9C2-52F83E2339C2@local"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; ">Sara Ross, Ph.D.</span></em></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; "><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; ">President and 2016 Conference Chair</span></em></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><b><span style="color: rgb(146, 208, 80); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS, SYMPOSIA, AND POSTERS</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(75, 165, 36); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span></strong><em><b><span style="color: rgb(75, 165, 36); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">To present at the</span></b></em><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">26th Annual International Conference</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">29-31 JULY, 2016</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY, UT USA</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span></strong><br></span><strong><span style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Extended submission deadline is May 16, 2016, 2016</span></strong><span style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><em><b><span style="color: rgb(75, 165, 36); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span></b></em></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><em><b><span style="color: rgb(75, 165, 36); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Submit your abstract(s) electronically at </span></b></em><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.societyforchaostheory.org_conf_2016_cfp&d=CwMFAg&c=S1d2Gs1Y1NQV8Lx35_Qi5FnTH2uYWyh_OhOS94IqYCo&r=pcFN20v4vGhgAAPiksqqO4A5-JEqKN9t1ya9W1PQre0&m=p1R2u78ThwGdqJgZvfcSbXX842zLHcOG17g9Fi39qm8&s=oj4_wH7oS8fv1CEJSEh3nqvI2j_oXcNjbmvzy6x2iNM&e=" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/cfp</a></span></div><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Celebrating 25 years! </span></b></em><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">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><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">In addition to our special invited keynotes</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- Gus Koehler and Glenda Eoyang - the 2016 conference format includes concurrent sessions of papers, symposia, short workshops, and posters. Participants will include an international group of psychologists, physicists, mathematicians, economists, researchers, consultants, 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="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Make your travel plans now!</span></i></b></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(75, 165, 36); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACTS</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Length</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><br> <strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Content</span></strong></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><br> · <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">For all abstracts:</span></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="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><br>· <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Choose a category:</span></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><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Additional Information</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">REGISTRATION for the conference and workshops is open at</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.societyforchaostheory.org_conf_2016_&d=CwMFAg&c=S1d2Gs1Y1NQV8Lx35_Qi5FnTH2uYWyh_OhOS94IqYCo&r=pcFN20v4vGhgAAPiksqqO4A5-JEqKN9t1ya9W1PQre0&m=p1R2u78ThwGdqJgZvfcSbXX842zLHcOG17g9Fi39qm8&s=FNqVJgiP36Ap1JM5nR7f3SFsXKmBClTSaZb3xwMya1M&e=" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; ">http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/</span></strong></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></p></div></div></div><br><hr><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div></span></span></body></html>