Analysis of Dynamic Psychological Systems

Analysis of Dynamic Psychological Systems
Author: H.E. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2013-03-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1461564409

Drawing on sources from a wide range of disciplines, this first volume of a two volume tutorial on systems theory focuses on non-linear dynamical techniques for analysis of feedback processes, information flow, decision making, control theory, and modeling of human behavioral systems.

Analytical Methods for Dynamic Modelers

Analytical Methods for Dynamic Modelers
Author: Hazhir Rahmandad
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2015-11-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262331438

A user-friendly introduction to some of the most useful analytical tools for model building, estimation, and analysis, presenting key methods and examples. Simulation modeling is increasingly integrated into research and policy analysis of complex sociotechnical systems in a variety of domains. Model-based analysis and policy design inform a range of applications in fields from economics to engineering to health care. This book offers a hands-on introduction to key analytical methods for dynamic modeling. Bringing together tools and methodologies from fields as diverse as computational statistics, econometrics, and operations research in a single text, the book can be used for graduate-level courses and as a reference for dynamic modelers who want to expand their methodological toolbox. The focus is on quantitative techniques for use by dynamic modelers during model construction and analysis, and the material presented is accessible to readers with a background in college-level calculus and statistics. Each chapter describes a key method, presenting an introduction that emphasizes the basic intuition behind each method, tutorial style examples, references to key literature, and exercises. The chapter authors are all experts in the tools and methods they present. The book covers estimation of model parameters using quantitative data; understanding the links between model structure and its behavior; and decision support and optimization. An online appendix offers computer code for applications, models, and solutions to exercises. Contributors Wenyi An, Edward G. Anderson Jr., Yaman Barlas, Nishesh Chalise, Robert Eberlein, Hamed Ghoddusi, Winfried Grassmann, Peter S. Hovmand, Mohammad S. Jalali, Nitin Joglekar, David Keith, Juxin Liu, Erling Moxnes, Rogelio Oliva, Nathaniel D. Osgood, Hazhir Rahmandad, Raymond Spiteri, John Sterman, Jeroen Struben, Burcu Tan, Karen Yee, Gönenç Yücel

The Persuasion Handbook

The Persuasion Handbook
Author: James Price Dillard
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 898
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761920069

Vienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor Eugen Bischoff is found dead in his garden pavilion, suspicion falls immediately on Baron von Yosch, a well-to-do army officer who was once the lover of the dead man s wife. By all appearances the door was locked from the inside when the two shots rang out the actor took his own life, but someone, or something, drove him to it. The baron sets out to learn all he can about the actor s death in order to clear his name. Meanwhile, within a few days, similar apparent suicides are reported. What started out as a straightforward quest to establish Bischoff s last deeds and discover the truth of his death becomes a search through the ages for an invisible enemy identified only by the actor s dying breath, when he whispered: . . . the Day of Judgment. Leo Perutz combines his hallmark blend of suspense and the fantastic in this spine-tingling mystery.

On the Self-Regulation of Behavior

On the Self-Regulation of Behavior
Author: Charles S. Carver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2001-05-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521000994

This book presents a thorough overview of a model of human functioning based on the idea that behavior is goal-directed and regulated by feedback control processes. It describes feedback processes and their application to behavior, considers goals and the idea that goals are organized hierarchically, examines affect as deriving from a different kind of feedback process, and analyzes how success expectancies influence whether people keep trying to attain goals or disengage. Later sections consider a series of emerging themes, including dynamic systems as a model for shifting among goals, catastrophe theory as a model for persistence, and the question of whether behavior is controlled or instead 'emerges'. Three chapters consider the implications of these various ideas for understanding maladaptive behavior, and the closing chapter asks whether goals are a necessity of life. Throughout, theory is presented in the context of diverse issues that link the theory to other literatures.

When Things Go Wrong

When Things Go Wrong
Author: Charles F. Hermann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136622462

The question of how to deal with adverse feedback to high-stakes foreign policy speaks to a number of important, current scenarios in international relations. The esteemed contributors to this book offer explanations and illustrative case studies of critical choice points in foreign and national security policy. Competing theories from several of disciplines, primarily psychology, political science, and management, offer insights into a subject that has been very little studied in foreign policy, yet is as current as today’s headlines.

Analysis of Dynamic Psychological Systems

Analysis of Dynamic Psychological Systems
Author: H.E. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1993-06-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781461564423

Drawing on sources from a wide range of disciplines, this first volume of a two volume tutorial on systems theory focuses on non-linear dynamical techniques for analysis of feedback processes, information flow, decision making, control theory, and modeling of human behavioral systems.

Children of Poverty

Children of Poverty
Author: Barry S. Zuckerman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2021-03-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317946251

A collection of the Proceedings of a Society for Research in Child Development Round Table, held in 1993 by the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).The intent of the round tables was "to help chart the course for child development research, health care, and public policy for the next ten years". The contributors believe the papers presented and the round table discussions, along with their broader distribution in this volume, do indeed offer useful insights and powerful guidance to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners and interventionists with a vast range of professional training.

Qualitative Data Analysis

Qualitative Data Analysis
Author: Matthew B. Miles
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1994-01-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780803955400

The latest edition of this best-selling textbook by Miles and Huberman not only is considerably expanded in content, but is now available in paperback. Bringing the art of qualitative analysis up-to-date, this edition adds hundreds of new techniques, ideas and references developed in the past decade. The increase in the use of computers in qualitative analysis is also reflected in this volume. There is an extensive appendix on criteria to choose from among the currently available analysis packages. Through examples from a host of social science and professional disciplines, Qualitative Data Analysis remains the most comprehensive and complete treatment of this topic currently available to scholars and applied researchers.