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Title: Dynamical Social Psychology by Andrzej Nowak, Robin R. Vallacher ISBN: 1-57230-353-0 Publisher: Guilford Publications Pub. Date: 09 October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00

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Summary: Cutting-Edge DST in Social Psych: Does Noise Matter?
Comment: Where's the meta-theory? Ask Vallacher & NOwak:they'll tell you it's Dynamical System Theory (DST). DST is an explicit alternative to computational hypothesis (think Newell & Simon's physical symbol hypothesis - how PCs work vs. DST how MACs work; see van Gelder's book on the moving mind for more info). Your mind/brain is a system of self-organizing, interdependent cognitive and affective elements from which all behaviors emerge. Evidence comes from Mouse paradigms -- people think and talk and point and click and -- viola! - and from the all the noisy thoughts, coherent patterns of feelings emerge. Suddenly all those hamster-in-a-cage thoughts that have been keeping you awake at night have an explaination -- you're self-organizing! SO feel better: Knowing that you can map your moods into strange attractors, bifurcations, and determined chaos will increase your self knowledge and decrease your anxiety. Still don't believe that there are no rules to social cognition? Evidence from computer simulations demonstrates that messy emotions can merge into meaning. Worth reading and thinking about if you're a student of psychology and in search of the ultimate theory.

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