ABSTRACT
The word “conclusions” is not a good choice in this context, but a few summary remarks are warranted based on the history and inventory of nonlinear dynamics in psychology presented here. The days of “Here’s Chaos!” have been gone for quite some time. The value of NDS concepts and methods for explaining phenomena is being actively explored and tested. All the main areas of psychology have been visited by NDS theory to some extent. A promising development is that NDS can address phenomena that were observed or conceptualized in past theory, but for which a set of modeling concepts and methods was not yet available. What results is an integration of NDS and basic principles in each percolation of psychological theory.
