In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding
policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The intense search for the biological basis of …

Inhomogeneous temporal processes, like those appearing in human communications,
neuron spike trains and seismic signals, consist of high-activity bursty intervals alternating …

Bursty dynamics is a common temporal property of various complex systems in nature but it
also characterises the dynamics of human actions and interactions. At the …

Psychological science constructs much of the knowledge that we consume in our everyday
lives. This book is a systematic analysis of this process, and of the nature of the knowledge it …

It is significant to discovery the impact of panic on crowd movement and study the panic
propagation mechanism which can help real crowd control. This paper focuses on panic …

The Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) represents a set of life‐long disorders. In particular,
subjects with ASD can display momentary behaviors of acute agitation and aggressiveness …

In many complex systems, self-organised criticality (SOC) provides a mechanism for the
diversity of spatiotemporal scales that optimises the system's response to omnipresent …

It is becoming ever more accepted that investigations of mind span the brain, body, and
environment. To broaden the scope of what is relevant in such investigations is to increase …

Context There is considerable variation in the productivity of software developers. Better
knowledge about this variation may provide valuable inputs for the design of skill tests and …

Borsboom et al.'s formulation provides an opportunity for a fundamental rethink about the
“brain disease model” of addiction that dominates research, treatment, policy, and lay …