The dynamics of human experience: Fundamentals of dynamical social psychology

Chaos and Complexity in Psychology: The Theory of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 370-401

  Vallacher, Robin R ^a   Nowak, Andrzej ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139058544.013     Document Type: Chapter

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