CALL: 12th Ann. SOCIETY FOR CHAOS THEORY IN PSYCHOLOGY & LIFE SCIENCES

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DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND, THE CALL FOR PAPERS HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED
TO MAY 17, 2002

12th Annual International Conference of the
SOCIETY FOR CHAOS THEORY IN PSYCHOLOGY & LIFE SCIENCES
August 1-4, 2002, Portland, Oregon, USA

An invitation is extended to all interested scholars to submit abstracts
reporting work involving chaos theory, fractals, nonlinear dynamics,
complexity, and related principles.

Submissions are solicited in research, theory, and application in any of the
psychological and life sciences sub-disciplines. Areas represented at
recent conferences have included neuroscience, biology, medical research,
economics, sociology, anthropology, physics, political science, psychology,
organizations and management, education, art, philosophy, and literature. The
program will include single papers, symposia, and roundtable or other special
sessions. Subject matter may be theoretical or applied, and may be empirically
or methodologically oriented.

THIS YEAR'S CONFERENCE SPECIAL FOCUS
Chaos and Complexity in a Changing World
Dick Bird, President Elect, Conference Coordinator,
Department of Psychology, University of Northumbria
dick.bird@xxxxxxxxx

We are planning sessions on the above
special focus, and we encourage submissions around this theme. We seek to
understand and analyze the changes taking place in the world, especially those
following the tragic events of September 11th 2001, and to point up the
relevance of chaos and complexity science to the emerging world order. Terrorism
and its concomitants have presented a challenge to our established
conceptualizations of the world, a challenge that we believe chaos theory and
related disciplines can help to answer.  The task of understanding will
involve many perspectives including psychological, social, economic and
organizational issues. Analysis may take many forms: political science,
financial modeling, the psychology of extremism and the social organization of
terror among them.  Pertinent research issues include the modeling of
belief systems, communication, social organization, management structures and
methodological issues such as data acquisition, validity and analysis.

Alongside this special focus we will as usual be welcoming contributions
in all other broad areas of research and practice in chaos science.

Following our success in previous years,
the conference will also have two to three prominent guest speakers
(please check web site for updates) We also strongly encourage collections
of individuals to propose symposia that combine individual presentations
with group and roundtable discussion.

WORKSHOPS FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ARE SCHEDULED:
Fred Abraham: Simulation of Models, Research Design, & Data Analysis
	in Nonlinear Research
Stephen Guastello: Organizational Behavior: Managing Emergent
	Phenomena
Robert Porter & colleagues: Nonlinear Dynamics and Psychotherapy:
	Some Current Views

SEND AN ABSTRACT OF APPROXIMATELY 200 WORDS TO:
Dick Bird: dick.bird@xxxxxxxxx
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