Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Humanities and Social Science

Informational Psychology: A New Domain of Psychological Study

Authors
Guo Wang, Bibo Xu, Zongrong Li
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Guo Wang
Available Online January 2016.
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.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Humanities and Social Science
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
January 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-159-9
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/hss-26.2016.122How to use a DOI?
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/).

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