Biological complexity meets positive psychology: What can complexity theory tell us about positive psychology?

Positive Psychology: Advances in Understanding Adult Motivation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 309-347

  Witten, Tarynn M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Bifurcation; Buffering; Catastrophe; Chaos; Complexity; Dynamical systems; Emergence; Entrainment; Evolvability; Fractal; Fragility; Graphs; Hierarchies; Homeodynamics; Homeostasis; Lifecourse; Multistability; Networks; Power law; Resilience; Robustness; Self organization; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956664644     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7282-7     Document Type: Chapter

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