Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Systems thinking is a mindset and skill essential to understanding and addressing complex challenges. However, increasing and measuring systems thinking is difficult. In this research, we compared multiple approaches to measuring systems thinking, including self‐reported measures of a systems thinking mindset and performative measures of ...
Cynthia McPherson Frantz +2 more
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Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence as Web 4.0: The Next Generation of the Internet
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study utilizes systems thinking to explore and entwine an evolving metaverse scholarship to a relatively underexplored phenomenon of Web 4.0. We adopt a soft systems thinking framework to guide the interpretation of complex and evolving metaverse scholarship, using bibliometric mapping of 5587 publications sourced from Scopus.
Anton Klarin +3 more
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Large language models as cognitive shortcuts: a systems-theoretic reframing beyond bullshit. [PDF]
Front Artif IntellSariyar M.
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Information Dynamics and Learning in Complex Adaptive Systems: Toward a Transdisciplinary Framework
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops a framework for understanding learning and adaptation in complex adaptive systems. Drawing from neuroscience, systems theory, information theory and quantum field theory, it examines how information processing, plasticity and systemic coherence emerge from distributed, nonlinear and feedback‐driven interactions. It argues
Anderson de Souza Sant'Anna
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Metaphors in context and in isolation: Familiarity, aptness, concreteness, metaphoricity, and structure norms for 300 two-word expressions. [PDF]
Behav Res MethodsPissani L, de Almeida RG.
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Mind and Cosmos as Throughput Systems: A Convergence Through the Throughput Model
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper advances a conceptual and mathematical foundations approach by applying the throughput model (TPM) to cosmic phenomena, reframing the universe as an extended information processing system. TPM's four stages, Perception, Information, Judgement and Decision Choice, are reformulated in explicit information‐theoretic and dynamical ...
Waymond Rodgers
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The Role of Dispositional Rule-Following and Metaphors About Psychological Flexibility on Operant Schedule Control. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)Lyons GA, Zettle RD.
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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis
Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha +2 more
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Is explaining more like showing or more like building?-Agency in metaphors of explaining. [PDF]
Front PsycholPorwol P, Scharlau I.
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
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