"This book explores the foundation, history, and theory of intelligent adaptive systems, providing a fundamental resource on topics such as the emergence of intelligent adaptive systems in social sciences, biologically inspired artificial social systems, sensory information processing, as well ...

Addresses the question of what contribution music makes to the emotional aspects of film.

Defining disreputable acts and the criminal acts among them is difficult because society is complex and the political and coercive institutions of the state have their own internal complexity and relationship to different aspects of society. This chapter's definition of deviance builds on effor...

(from the chapter) Like some other contributors to this book (Kitayama & Imada, Chapter 9), we approach the theme of "mind in context" from the perspective of cultural psychology (CP). This theme is central to the concept of culture, which we define as explicit and implicit patterns of historically ...