Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol. 29,2025
@2025 Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences


Volume 29, Issue 1, Jan, 2025

Cover Art: 'Birds of Paradise'.
Marek Berezowski
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Introduction to Emergence in Social Systems.
James K. Hazy, Benyamin Lichtenstein, & Stephen J. Guastello, pg. 1
Keywords: emergence, self-organization, work performance, epidemic control, renewable energy, social services
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Jeffrey Goldstein: The Nonlinear Dynamical Career of a Nonlinear Dynamicist.
Kevin J. Dooley, pg. 5
Keywords: self-organization, emergence, self-transcending construction, dialectics, biography
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Toward a Science of Emergence: Definitions, Prototypes, Principles and Applications.
Benyamin Lichtenstein, pg. 25
Keywords: complexity, emergence leadership, computational modeling, self-organization
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Simultaneous Emergent Phenomena: Leadership and Team Synchrony.
Stephen J. Guastello, Nicholas R. Peters, & Anthony F. Peressini, pg. 59
Keywords: leadership emergence, autonomic synchrony, swallowtail catastrophe, inverse power law, lognormal distribution
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Work Group Competition and Performance Dynamics.
Arianna Dal Forno & Ugo Merlone, pg. 113
Keywords: complexity, conflict management, Milnor attractor, bifurcations, chaotic repeller, leadership
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Complexity Control in Artificial Self-Organizing Systems: The Case of Bottom-Up versus Top-Down Intervention When Managing Pandemic Contagion.
Korosh Mahmoodi & James K. Hazy, pg. 135
Keywords: collective intelligence, collective agency, selfish algorithm agent, social complexity, organizational resilience, complexity leadership
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Addressing Wicked Human Services vs Wicked Social-Ecological Problems: A Self-Transcending Constructions Approach.
Sharon Zivkovic, pg. 165
Keywords: wicked problems self-transcending constructions labs, emergence
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Emergence of an Industrial Innovation Ecosystem: Renewable Energy in India.
Gita Surie, pg. 189
Keywords: complexity, emergence, innovation ecosystems, dissipative structures
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Volume 29, Issue 2, Apr, 2025

Cover Art: 'Scorpions'.
Marek Berezowski
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Mathematical Analysis of a Two-Strain Host-Vector Dengue Model with Vertical Transmission.
Marcin Choiński, Joanna Rencławowicz, & Urszula Skwara, pg. 215
Keywords: dengue model, vertical transmission, disease-free equilibrium, endemic equilibrium, local stability of solutions
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Mathematical Model of the Dynamics of Psychotherapy.
Magdalena Szafrańska-Łęczycka, Katarzyna Szymańska-Dębowska, & Urszula Foryś, pg. 257
Keywords: psychotherapy, dyadic interactions, dynamical system, local and global stability, instability
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Chaotic Dynamics in a Mathematical Model of Psychotherapy with Delayed Interaction Reaction.
Eduardo Rodriguez, Jose Alvarez-Ramirez, & Gilberto Espinosa-Paredes, pg. 291
Keywords: differential equations, delayed reactions, psychotherapy dynamics, Lyapunov exponent
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Stability Analysis and Optimal Control as Strategies Reducing Smokers in Model of Addicted Smoking with Incident Rate Holling Type Function.
Ilham Syata, Syamsuddin Toaha, & Firman Firman, pg. 313
Keywords: smoking addiction, incident rate, optimal control, stability analysis, sensitivity analysis
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Mathematical Artist Painter.
Marek Berezowski, pg. 333
Keywords: fractals, Lyapunov exponent, complex numbers, Mandelbrot set
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