ISSN 1090-0578

NDPLS is the official quarterly research journal of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences since 1997. NDPLS publishes original theory and empirical research on attractors, bifurcations, chaos, fractals, solitons, catastrophes, self-organization processes and emergence, power law distributions, cellular automata, agent-based models, genetic algorithms, agent-based models, social and neural networks, with application to problems encountered in psychology, biology, management, economics and other social and life sciences. All articles are refereed. NDPLS is indexed in PsycINFO, Medline, Econlit, Scopus, ScienceDirect, MathSciNet, and Web of Science. 

NDPLS welcomes article submissions from the scientific community at any time of year. We occasionally post in addition calls for special issues, which have their own timetables. Suggestions for new special issues are welcome; please contact the Editor-in-Chief.  NDPLS is a traditional subscription journal; there are no page, production, or review charges to authors. Please see the menu options (left) for instructions for authors, subscription options for individuals and institutional libraries, and purchasing single issues or articles. 

SEARCH NDPLS using the new search tool on the Articles and Abstracts page. We would also like to take this opportunity to recommend the special issues listed below.

SPECIAL ISSUES  

January 2024 — CALL FOR PAPERS:  Unshackling Organizations: Applications at the Leading Edge of Leadership, Organizations, and Society (in memory of Jeffrey A. Goldstein)
Guest Co-editors: James Hazy, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, and Benyamin Lichtenstein, University of Massachusetts, Boston MA

July 2024:  Dynamics of Resilience and Adaptive Responses to Traumatic Stress
Guest Co-editors: Adam Kiefer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, David Pincus, Chapman University, and Bernard Ricca, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

April 2024:  Nonlinear Economics and Social Science (in memory of J. Barkley Rosser, Jr)
Guest Co-editors: Roberto Dieci, University of Bologna, Italy, and Ugo Merlone, University of Torino, Italy

October 2021:  Bounded Rationality
Guest Co-editors: Andrea Ceschi, University of Verona, and Guido Fioretti, University of Bologna, Italy

January 2019:  Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Guest Editor: David Pincus, Chapman University, Orange, CA

January 2018:   Advanced Modeling Methods for Organizational Dynamics
Guest Co-editors: Ricardo Sartori and Andrea Ceschi, University of Verona, Italy 

October 2017:  Neurodynamics in Honor of Walter Freeman
Guest Co-editors: William Sulis and Irina Trofiova, McMaster University, Hamilton, ONT, Canada

April, 2016:  Interpersonal Synchronization 

October 2015:  Optimum Variability

 January 2014:   Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Education
Guest Co-Editors: Matthijs Koopmans, Mercy College, NY, and Dimitrios Stamovlasis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 

January 2013: Nonlinear Organizational Dynamics
Guest Co-Editors: Kevin J. Dooley, Arizona State University, L. Douglas Kiel, University of Texas, Dallas, and A. Steven Dietz, Texas State University, San Marcos

July 2012: Developmental Psychopathology
Guest Editor: Thomas J. Dishion, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 

January 2012: Dynamics of Brain Functioning
Guest Co-Editors: Robert A. M. Gregson, Australian National University and Sifis Micheloyannis, University of Crete Medical School

April 2011:  Creativity and Nonlinear Dynamics 
Guest Co-Editor: M. Jayne Fleener, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 

October, 2010: Medical Practice
Guest Editor: David Katerndahl, University of Texas San Antonio Health Centers

July 2009:  Impact of Edward Lorenz
Guest Editor: Mohammed H. I. Dore, Brock University, St. Catherines, ONT, Canada 

January 2009:  Psychomotor Coordination and Control
Guest Editor: Mark Shelhamer, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore MD 

January 2007: Nonlinear Science: Paradigm Shift of Normal Science?
Guest Editor: M. Jayne Fleener, North Carolina State University