ISSN 1946-7125

Dynamical Psychology

An International, Interdisciplinary Journal

of Complex Mental Processes

 

Editor: Mark Germine
Associate Editors: Allan Combs, Ben Goertzel
Honorary Editors: Ervin Laszlo, Stanley Krippner
Editorial Board: Fred Abraham, John Arden, Jason Brown, George Christos, Thomas Germinario

Table of Contents
Journal Philosophy
DynaPsych -- Past, Present and Future
Types of Contribution
Particular Areas of Interest
Information for Authors
Copyright Policy

Journal Philosophy

Dynamical Psychology is a journal for the study of complex mental processes of all kinds.

We are concerned with, very broadly speaking,

• the patterns by which psychological processes unfold through time
• the emergent, persistent structures which arise as a consequence of this unfolding

We are explicitly open to a variety of perspectives on psychological process, including cognitive, behavioral, nonlinear-science, physics-oriented, sociological, phenomenological, and transpersonal.

We are committed to using innovative ideas to understand the mind as a whole, bridging the artificial separations which currently exist between disciplines and subdisciplines.

Recognizing that the goal of science is understanding and not merely data, we aim at a side-by-side presentation of theoretical explorations, mathematical analyses, computational experiments, and empirical data.

DynaPsych -- Past, Present and Future

Dynamical Psychology is an electronic journal

It is a continuation of the paper journal PsychoScience, which existed from 1993-1995, and which was edited by Mark Germine, with assistance from Allan Combs. The contents of the paper issues of PsychoScience are available here online, along with the new DynaPsych material.

We are tentatively considering a return to paper format, and may at some point in the future seek a conventional publisher interested in issuing a quarterly paper version of Dynamical Psychology, running in parallel with the electronic version.

Types of Contribution

Dynamical Psychology contains five types of contribution:

• research articles presenting experimental data, computational experiments, mathematical analyses, or clearly-formulated theoretical ideas
• informal essays presenting more personal, wide-ranging views on aspects of mental process
• survey articles, presenting summaries of past contributions, or synthesizing ideas and results from different paradigms.
• brief commentaries, pertaining to the contents of research articles, essays, survey articles, or other commentaries
• book reviews

Authors are invited to submit papers which present innovative, unorthodox interpretations of empirical or computational experiments that have already been described in other publications.

Readers are invited to submit commentary items pertaining to DynaPsych articles. The ability to present a continuously running stream of commentaries, linked in with articles, is one of the advantages of the electronic format. The level of scholarship involved in commentary items is expected to be well above that of the average Internet newsgroup post.

Particular Areas of Interest

While the scope of DynaPsych is broad, certain areas are of particular interest to the editors. These include, but are not limited to:

• nonlinear dynamics and complexity science, used to
• provide innovative analyses of psychological data
• construct computational models which emulate the behavior of psychological systems
• consciousness viewed as a process dynamical system -- from any perspective, be it neural networks, abstract algebra, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism or transpersonal psychology
• the mental construction of reality, viewed from social, psychophysical, complex-systems and neurophysiological perspectives
• connections between different areas of mind science -- e.g. psychophysics and learning theory, quantum physics and psychology, neurobiology and phenomenology, cognitive and transpersonal models of consciousness....

Information for Authors

Papers should be submitted to the Chief Editor.

We will endeavor to provide a publication decision within 30 days of receipt, often faster. However, authors must naturally expect some variance here.

Our methods of assessing submissions are as follows:

• Research papers and survey articles will be peer-reviewed
• Commentary items and book reviews will be accepted or rejected by editorial decision
• Informal essays may be processed either by peer review or by editorial decision. Authors may request peer review if that is their wish.

Initial submissions may be made in electronic format, or by ordinary post. However, electronic format is encouraged, and if a paper is accepted for publication, at that point the author will be required to provide an electronic version.

The preferred formats for submission are, in order of preference:

1. Word 97-2003 (*.doc)
2. PDF
3. HTML (Hypertext Mark-Up Language).
4. RTF (Rich Text Format)

Note that all modern word processors (e.g. recent versions of Word and WordPerfect) will create RTF files.

Copyright Policy

At present, the status of WWW publications as regards copyright law is very much an open question.

Our initial policy, subject to change, is that we will not require authors to assign the copyrights of their articles to DynaPsych. All that we ask is "WWW publishing rights." What this means is that, when an author agrees to have an article published in DynaPsych:

• the author grants DynaPsych permission to post their article on the Web for an unlimited time period
• the author agrees not to publish this same article in another refereed electronic journal (as opposed to, e.g., their own personal Web page)

Note that this agreement leaves open the possibility of an author re-publishing a DynaPsych paper in a conventional paper journal -- assuming that the publisher of the paper journal is agreeable.

This is to be understood as a transitional policy, which will be changed if DynaPsych adopts a mixed electronic/paper format, or if, over the next few years, electronic publishing becomes more "legitimate" in the eyes of the academic world.

Addresses

 

Chief Editor

Mark Germine, MD
Institute for Psychoscience
P.O. Box 1654, Mount Shasta, CA  96067
mgermine@hotmail.com

Associate Editors

Ben Goertzel
Novamente LLC/ Biomind LLC / AGIRI

14409 Oakvale St.

Rockville MD 20853
ben@goertzel.org

Allan Combs
Department of Transformative Inquiry
California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
1453 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA  94103
Allan@SourceIntegralis.org

 

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and

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