ABSTRACT
The first type of attractor is a point attractor. This is a pattern of behavior that converges in phase-space to one point (see Figure 1 ). An often quoted example of a point attractor is a pendulum that goes to the same point in an arc at equal intervals and then comes to rest at exactly the same point each time. A point attractor has limited use in understanding human behavior because humans never do the same thing exactly the same way or at the same time; however, a point attractor is exactly what we look for in traditional analyses-a point that is always the same for a given value, a perfect correlation.
