<html><head><base href="x-msg://15/"></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 id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div lang="EN-US"><div class="x_WordSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><img width="94" height="69" tabindex="0" id="x_Picture_x0020_1" alt="cid:image001.png@01D39821.83FAF0C0" unselectable="on" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" style="width: 0.979in; height: 0.729in; " src="cid:image001.png@01D46213.061C0FB0">Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences</span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-indent: 0.5in; margin-left: 0.5in; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; ">8<sup>th</sup><span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span>International Nonlinear Science Conference</span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> Coimbra, Portugal, 28-30 March, 2019</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">We are pleased to announce the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>third<span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>guest speaker for the 8<sup>th</sup><span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span>Annual INSC, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; ">Prof.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; ">Dr.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; ">Wolfgang Tschacher</span><span style="color: black; ">, from the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Bern, Switzerland<span style="color: black; ">.</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><i><span style="color: black; ">Title: </span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; ">Synchrony and Embodiment Empirical Hypotheses derived from Synergetics</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Abstract: </span></strong><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Current research in psychology increasingly showed that, and how, social and psychotherapeutic interaction is grounded in posture, body motion, gesture, prosody, and physiology in short, in the bodies of individuals interacting. It was found that patients and therapists spontaneously synchronize their movements and even their physiological responses during psychotherapy. This nonverbal synchrony has been linked to better therapeutic outcomes and generally to prosocial attitudes. Mental and communicative processes are thus embodied in movement patterns and physiological synchrony. I view such processes as examples of self-organization dynamics that can be modeled in the framework of Hermann Haken's synergetics. We developed statistical methods to detect synchrony based on time series with high sampling rates, and to establish effect sizes of this phenomenon using surrogate tests. I will also demonstrate how we can visualize the underlying attractor landscapes on the basis of such time series.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Biographical: </span></strong><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Wolfgang Tschacher was born in Stuttgart, Germany, studied psychology at Tübingen University where he received his Ph.D. in 1990. Psychotherapy training in systemic therapy at the Institute of Family Therapy, Munich. Habilitation in psychology and Venia legendi 1996 at University of Bern, Switzerland, professorship in 2002. He currently works at the University Hospital of Psychiatry, where he founded the department of psychotherapy research. His main interests are in quantitative psychotherapy research, time-series methods and experimental psychopathology, with an emphasis on dynamical systems, complexity science, embodied cognition, and phenomena of cognitive self-organization. Organizer of the series of 'Herbstakademie' conferences on systems theory in psychology. For a list of publications and conference information see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk738938" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.exp.unibe.ch&d=DwMFaQ&c=S1d2Gs1Y1NQV8Lx35_Qi5FnTH2uYWyh_OhOS94IqYCo&r=pcFN20v4vGhgAAPiksqqO4A5-JEqKN9t1ya9W1PQre0&m=XEbICJPAK8K3PnYW1scpFHBXtUkBQV_qsMCRZjSwKtI&s=xiXJP6ewSJl0YILhb066HIzzlG1uQnn16iW10wU_-8M&e=" previewremoved="true">www.exp.unibe.ch</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk8669" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.embodiment.ch&d=DwMFaQ&c=S1d2Gs1Y1NQV8Lx35_Qi5FnTH2uYWyh_OhOS94IqYCo&r=pcFN20v4vGhgAAPiksqqO4A5-JEqKN9t1ya9W1PQre0&m=XEbICJPAK8K3PnYW1scpFHBXtUkBQV_qsMCRZjSwKtI&s=EGPoqxchMx9H7rRX6nwqJqN4_9MbDCrbeZ5ZH9gzKfc&e=" previewremoved="true">www.embodiment.ch</a></span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> And don't forget:</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; ">The Call for Papers (Abstracts) is open. Submit your abstract(s) electronically at <a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk741694" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sctpls.org_insc_2019_cfp.cgi&d=DwMFaQ&c=S1d2Gs1Y1NQV8Lx35_Qi5FnTH2uYWyh_OhOS94IqYCo&r=pcFN20v4vGhgAAPiksqqO4A5-JEqKN9t1ya9W1PQre0&m=XEbICJPAK8K3PnYW1scpFHBXtUkBQV_qsMCRZjSwKtI&s=1_0RWHMTDuRBYHElb2En7tOzhAxQeSNDqrb_qZeApaM&e=" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); ">http://sctpls.org/insc/2019/cfp.cgi</span></a></span></b></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; ">November 20, 2018 </span></b><span style="color: black; ">Early birds will start to receive their notification after this date. Acceptance decisions are sent within two weeks. </span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; ">January 10, 2019 </span></b><span style="color: black; ">The submission deadline </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Submit early so your travel plans can be made early too! </span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Kind Regards,</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; ">The Conference Committee:</span></b></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Teresa Rebelo</span></b><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">, </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">University of Coimbra</span></i><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">, Conference Chair, </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">David Schuldberg</span></b><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">,</span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> SCTPLS President</span></i><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">, </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Stephen Guastello</span></b><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">, </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Marquette University</span></i><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">, </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Dimitrios Stamovlasis</span></b><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">, </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Aristotle University,</span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Paulo Renato Lourenço</span></b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">, University of Coimbra,</span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Isabel Dimas</span></b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">, University of Aveiro</span></i></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; 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