ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a nonlinear extension of Miller, Dollard, and Lewin's social conflict theory. It also focuses on the responsibility and capacity of the dynamical systems approach to contribute to the evolution of a balance between unity and diversity in psychology, to the exercise of free choice, and to the humanist missions of science, psychology, and society. Dynamics is properly a branch of mathematics. Sciences borrow the approach as a strategy to observe and model the behavior of complex sets of interrelated phenomena. Dynamical systems can change. The value of the control parameter may change by a very small amount and result in a radical transformation in the system's behavior. Such a major transformation is called a bifurcation. The mind of a social organization is also the dynamical system comprised of the interaction of the components of the social system with each other, its and their environments, and the personal minds of its participants.
