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.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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AU  - Guo Wang
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AU  - Zongrong Li
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TI  - Informational Psychology: A New Domain of Psychological Study
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Humanities and Social Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
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