*Group Dynamics as Nonlinear System Gives Rise to Chaotic Determinism
Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Mentor/Supervising Professor Name
Williams, Ruth
Description
To date, there is not a group dynamic model universally accepted or powerful enough to support complex human phenomena by representing, diagnosing and predicting simultaneously. I propose a new model of psychological space that connects to individual and group behavior. Firstly, the presuppositions are hedonic, meaning to be conscious is to be sensation seeking by which actions are motivated from the tension between identity and the object of gratification. Conscious experience will be represented within a phase space consisting of the variables Tense to Relaxed on the X plane and Comfort to Discomfort on the Y plane. Secondly, in the experiment students are to observe commonly viewed videos on YouTube ranging from innocent cat videos to game shows to spiritual matters to interviews with criminals, etc.. Meanwhile, they record their levels of tension and relaxation, with comfort and discomfort periodically. Thirdly, the data should depict something akin to the mathematical system created in 1963 by Edward Lorenz called the Lorenz Attractor. A Lorenz system is one in which an object (in this case experience) travels chaotically around a multitude of attractive sets. While my model was formulated independently and intuitively for psychological processes, his model was invented mathematically and used to calculate weather predictions. My hypothesis is that humans who combine their level of tension to their level of comfort toward certain stimulus will provide inferences on ones present character and future behavior. Lastly, if the data depicts a significant amount of people moving in the same trajectory along an attractor, or series thereof, it may have the power to represent, diagnose and predict psychological and behavioral phenomena all at once. If this is the case, the Attractor System would be the standard model for group dynamics.
*Group Dynamics as Nonlinear System Gives Rise to Chaotic Determinism
To date, there is not a group dynamic model universally accepted or powerful enough to support complex human phenomena by representing, diagnosing and predicting simultaneously. I propose a new model of psychological space that connects to individual and group behavior. Firstly, the presuppositions are hedonic, meaning to be conscious is to be sensation seeking by which actions are motivated from the tension between identity and the object of gratification. Conscious experience will be represented within a phase space consisting of the variables Tense to Relaxed on the X plane and Comfort to Discomfort on the Y plane. Secondly, in the experiment students are to observe commonly viewed videos on YouTube ranging from innocent cat videos to game shows to spiritual matters to interviews with criminals, etc.. Meanwhile, they record their levels of tension and relaxation, with comfort and discomfort periodically. Thirdly, the data should depict something akin to the mathematical system created in 1963 by Edward Lorenz called the Lorenz Attractor. A Lorenz system is one in which an object (in this case experience) travels chaotically around a multitude of attractive sets. While my model was formulated independently and intuitively for psychological processes, his model was invented mathematically and used to calculate weather predictions. My hypothesis is that humans who combine their level of tension to their level of comfort toward certain stimulus will provide inferences on ones present character and future behavior. Lastly, if the data depicts a significant amount of people moving in the same trajectory along an attractor, or series thereof, it may have the power to represent, diagnose and predict psychological and behavioral phenomena all at once. If this is the case, the Attractor System would be the standard model for group dynamics.