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Complexity Theory: Predictions Based on the Confluence of Science‐Wide and Behavioral Theories
Author(s) -
Streufert Siegfried,
Satish Usha
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1997.tb01642.x
Subject(s) - confluence , psychology , epistemology , behavioural sciences , cognitive science , cognition , cognitive psychology , computer science , philosophy , neuroscience , psychotherapist , programming language
Views of behavioral and science wide complexity theories are briefly summarized. Theory‐based predictions for human cognition and behavior based on both theories are advanced. Streufert (in this special issue) has discussed the confluence of science‐wide and behavioral complexity theory. Even though the former attempts to find common processes in all the sciences and the latter theory has, to date, limited itself to human behavior, there are many similarities in approach and in explanations of observed phenomena. Differences between the two theories are minor in comparison to their commonalities. Considering the many similarities, it may be useful to confirm (and possibly extend) behavioral complexity theory. A number of theorems, many familiar, some slightly modified, some new, will be provided at the end of this paper.