Emotion, Development, and Self-Organization by Marc D. Lewis,... - 9780521640893

Emotion, Development, and Self-OrganizationDynamic Systems Approaches to Emotional Development\nAuthor(s): Marc D. Lewis, Isabela Granic\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521640893, 978-0521640893\nSynopsis\nIn the last twenty to thirty years, a new way to understand complex systems has emerged in the natural sciences - an approach often called non-linear dynamics, dynamical systems theory, or chaos theory. This perspective has allowed scientists to trace the emergence of order from disorder and complex, higher-order forms from interactions among lower-order constituents. This is called self-organization, and is thought to be responsible for change and continuity in physical, biological, and social systems. Recently, principles of self-organizing dynamic systems have been imported into psychology, especially developmental psychology, where they have helped us reconceptualize basic processes in m.