Informational Psychology: A New Domain of Psychological Study
- DOI
- 10.2991/hss-26.2016.122How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Theoretical informatics, Informational psychology, Hypothesis of “Informational Man”, Principle of psychological regulation, Intelligence emergentism.
- Abstract
A new discipline called “Informational Psychology” have gradually appeared in applying theoretical informatics to the study of psychology since June, 2012. It opened up a new field of psychological research, like “a new domain” of psychology to be explored. The article explains the fundamental hypotheses of informational psychology, namely informationalism, the duality of material- information, and material man and informational man; it illustrates the basic concepts of informational psychology, such as physical, biological, and informational psyche, living material and living information, signal thinking and symbolic thinking, etc.; it discusses the fundamental principles of informational psychology, -- that is to say the principles of structure, function, and regulation; finally it introduces the basic research methodology of informational psychology: the approach of systems science, the technique of intelligence emergentism, etc.
- Copyright
- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Guo Wang AU - Bibo Xu AU - Zongrong Li PY - 2016/01 DA - 2016/01 TI - Informational Psychology: A New Domain of Psychological Study BT - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Humanities and Social Science PB - Atlantis Press SP - 735 EP - 743 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/hss-26.2016.122 DO - 10.2991/hss-26.2016.122 ID - Wang2016/01 ER -