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The Psychoinformatic Complexity of Humanness and Person-Situation Interaction

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This paper undertakes to answer the questions of how humanness is to be defined and computationally functionalized, as well as of how person-situation interaction is to be formalized mathematically. Complexity science and psychoinformatics are the two primary fields considered in addressing these questions. A novel “psychoinformatic complexity” (PIC) paradigm is outlined and argued to be an adequate one within which to operationalize modern-day Western humanness and person-situation interaction. The paper ends with a consideration of current PIC applications, including social media analytics and humanoid robotics.

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    In addition to emotional context and user behavior, experience was arguably also among Hancock et al.’s psychological topics of study (given that online forum posts are a rich, virtual source of such raw, phenomenological data).

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    It could perhaps be inferred from this latter fact that psychologists presently understand personality better than situationality. For a defense of such a view (as well as an attempted reversal of its implications for the current state of psychological research), see [19].

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The author thanks Drs. Eric Dodson, Marie-Cecile Bertau, and Andi Winderl for providing the opportunities to develop this paper.

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Sood, S. (2020). The Psychoinformatic Complexity of Humanness and Person-Situation Interaction. In: Arai, K., Bhatia, R. (eds) Advances in Information and Communication. FICC 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 69. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12388-8_35

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