# Index # **A** - Aboriginal, 161-163, 167 - Achievement motivation, 55, 98 - Action - common, 49, 84, 116, 124 - Action identification - hierarchical nature, 74 - levels, 61, 73, 74, 76, 79, 80, 82, 83 - principles, 72, 75, 77 - theory, 72, 73, 77, 110, 121, 180 - Action potentials - spikes, 36 - Agent - high-level, 110 - low-level, 110, 111 - Ambivalence, 50, 51, 54, 97 - Amplitude envelope synchronization, 12 - Anatomical segregation, 23 - Ant algorithm, 47 - Antennal lobe, 28, 29 - Anticipatory coding, 94 - Anti-phase, 89, 91, 97, 100, 104 - Assembly of functional units, 18 - Association, 3, 30, 48, 113, 178 - Asymptotic stability, 12 - Attention, 9, 18, 22, 31, 43, 50, 66, 67, 69, 70, 76, 79-82, 84, 90, 95, 114, 120, 152, 155, 169, 172, 185 - Attitude, 4, 7, 57, 71, 72, 87, 95, 97, 106, 111, 116-118, 120, 126, 139-141, 146, 147, 155, 160 - Attractor - alternative, 53, 54, 157, 158 - dynamics, 53, 59 - for control parameter, 109, 111 - lack of, 56 - periodic, 98 - Attractor neural networks, 7 - Autocratic recidivism, 130 - Automatic processing, 56 # **B** - Behavior - dyadic, 22, 94, 95 - Binding problem, 24, 25 - Binocular rivalry, 30 - Bottom-up, 21, 22, 118, 135, 139-145, 148, 150, 152, 156, 157, 160 - Boundaries, 37, 148, 151, 172 - Boycott. 140 - Brain - regions, 93, 94, 101, 185 - Bridging, 139, 146 - Bursting, 127, 128, 139. See also burst of activity - Burst of activity, 128. See also bursting - Business ventures, 158 # **C** - Canadian Aboriginal communities, 161 - Causality - bi-directional, 51, 62 - Cellular automata, 62 - Chameleon effect, 92 - Chaotic behaviour - regime, 35 - trajectory, 39 - Chaotic maps, 13 - Circular questions, 176, 180 - Civil resistance, 140 - Civil rights movement, 140, 152 - Civil society, 141, 143 - Club from Nowhere. 140 - Cluster synchrony, 15. See also partial synchrony - Cognition - cognitive processing, 23, 25, 29, 30 - higher cognitive functions, 23, 26, 30 - Cognitive dissonance, 45 - Cognitive-emotional amalgamations, 48 - Coherence, 5, 20, 29, 45, 46, 50, 54, 62, 65-67, 69, 93, 110, 116, 121, 122 - Collective action, 4, 7, 22, 118, 119, 123, 143 - Communication patterns, 116, 180 - Competition, 79, 80, 89, 98, 120 - Complexity, 10, 36, 39, 43, 62, 76, 94, 95, 99, 104, 108, 111, 114, 123, 130, 136, 148. 172. 183. - Complex system, 6, 8, 10, 21, 41 - Computer simulations, 62, 67, 96, 99, 104, 105, 111, 120, 130, 132, 136, 186 - Conflict, 4, 5, 9, 50, 56, 89, 93, 97, 98, 105, 116, 128, 175 - Conscious experience - consciousness, 7, 23, 30, 31, 43, 46, 47, 51, 52, 72, 80, 185 - conscious state, 26, 43 - Consciousness, 52. See also conscious experience/conscious state - Constructivism, 173 - Controlled processing, 48, 56 - Control parameters, 15, 97-100, 102, 103, 105, 107-111, 130 - Cooperation, 85, 89, 94, 98, 139, 142, 145, 146, 155, 167, 172 - Coordination - dynamics, 43, 114 - in groups, 116, 117 - movement, 81, 91 - Cortical columns, 23, 27, 32, 33, 43 - Coupled dynamical systems, 10, 12, 186 - Coupling strength, 15 - Creativity, 53, 116, 144, 155, 158 - Critical slowing down, 16 - Culture - aggressive, 132-135 - evolution of, 130-132 - of honour, 133-136 - rational, 133, 134 # **D** - Decay of synchrony, 15, 16. See also de-synchronisation - Decision, 4, 19, 20, 29, 46, 48, 50, 51, 53, 62, 70, 89, 119, 123, 124, 127 - Democratic uprising. 130 - Depression, 55, 56, 107, 169 - Desynchronization, 15. See also decay of synchrony - Deterministic chaos, 59, 97-99 - Disassembly-resynchronisation scenario, 20 - Distributed functions, 15, 17 - Dubarah, 160 - Dyad, 4, 6, 7, 21, 22, 89, 90, 93, 104, 112, 118, 122, 129, 136 - Dyadic interaction - relation, 89 - synchronization, 97, 111, 116 - Dynamical systems - nonlinear, 77, 91, 96, 110 - people as, 96 - Dynamics of thought, 45, 53 - Dysfunction, 16, 126, 172 - Dysfunctional adjustment, 159 - Dysfunctional SYNC, 170, 171, 174, 176, 179, 180 # **E** - Echo chambers, 125, 126 - EEG, 30, 41, 93 - Ego depletion, 56 - Embeddedness, 142, 144, 147, 151, 152 - Emergence, 8, 9, 14, 16, 18-23, 27, 47-51, 53, 61, 62, 64, 77, 84, 87, 89, 90, 97, 98, 100, 104, 109, 114-116, 121, 128, 135, 139, 145, 148, 186 - Emergent meaning, 46 - Empathy, 4, 50, 87, 92, 94, 101, 105, 147, 158 - Evaluation - alternative, 53 - as a collective variable, 52 - positive, 52, 57, 58, 64 - Evaluative consistency, 48 - Event-triggered pinning synchronization, 14 - Excitatory neurons, 31 - Expression, 6, 51, 64, 66-69, 88, 91, 92, 95, 101, 115, 184, 186 - External perturbations, 12, 14 # **F** - Face recognition, 30 - Family - choreography, 173-176, 178, 180 - epistemology, 173, 176 - system theory, 169 - therapy, 171 - Family System Therapy, 170, 171 - Feature binding, 16 - Feedback - loop, 32, 71-73, 94, 111, 122, 139, 142, 144, 156, 157, 160, 166, 167, 171-173, 182 - negative, 5, 56, 98 - positive, 31, 32, 47, 62, 98 - Fixed-point attractor, 53, 59, 60 - Flow, 37, 40, 45, 51, 52, 69, 72, 88, 93, 96, 97, 159, 184 - Fluency - action, 83 - perceptual, 82 - Frame - higher-order, 50, 51, 53, 54 - Frequency coding, 25 - Function, 3-11, 16, 18-26, 33, 37, 40-44, 47, 50-53, 55, 56, 62, 65, 66, 69-72, 75, 87, 89, 90, 92, 95, 97, 98, 105-107, 110, 111, 113, 114, 116, 123, 124, 126, 128-130, 135, 136, 139, 146, 156, 172, 173, 183-186 - Functional connections - connectivity, 10, 16, 17, 41-43 - networks, 20, 23, 32, 41. 42 - Functional connectome, 42, 43 - Functional magnetic resonance - fMRI, 41, 93 - Functional segregation, 23, 24 - Functional synchronization, 76, 90, 107 - Functional unit, 3, 4, 8, 9, 18-23, 25, 26, 30-32, 37-44, 46-50, 70, 71, 74, 76, 78, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 96, 104, 111, 114, 116, 119, 121-123, 128, 135, 139, 142, 144, 148, 152, 156, 157, 169-171, 173-175, 177, 179-181, 183-186 # **G** - Genogram, 181 - Georgia Gilmore, 140 - Gestalt psychology, 8, 9, 70, 75, 186 - Group/groups - activity, 115 - conflict, 131 - consensus, 116 - feelings, 115, 117, 122 - function, 5, 185 - roles, 114 - Groupthink, 123-125 # **H** - Hebb's synapse, 32 - Higher-order mental states, 7, 21, 48, 54, 62, 93. See also global evaluation, judgments, decisions, goals, action plans. - Higher-order thoughts, 22, 45 - Himera state, 15 - Hippocampus, 29 - Homeostasis, 171, 174 - Human experience, 8, 22, 50, 62, 183, 184 - Hyperscanning, 93 - Hysteresis, 91 # **I** - Inhibitory neurons, 31 - Integration, 21, 23-26, 30, 42, 43, 54, 55, 64, 66, 67, 69, 70, 74, 77 - Integration of information/information integration, 23-25, 30, 42, 43 - Intentions, 75, 76, 94, 95, 101, 120, 158 - Interaction - meaningful, 113 - Inter-hemispheric integration, 27 - Inter-hemispheric synchrony, 27 - Intermittent synch, 4, 9, 17, 22, 37, 105-107, 183-186. See also intermittent synchronization - Internal states, 7,53, 87, 88, 90, 95-105, 107, 111, 115, 117, 118, 120, 124, 135 - Intrinsic motivation, 82, 83 - Ironic process theory, 56 # **J** - Judgment, 4, 5, 7, 19-21, 46, 48-55, 57-59, 62, 70, 71, 96, 97, 111, 118, 123, 124 - momentary, 58 # **L** - Laplacian matrix, 13 - Leadership/leader, 119, 120, 124, 130, 148, 150, 151, 157 - Learning, 4, 18, 26, 30, 31, 69, 73, 75, 148 - Levels of analysis, 90, 106, 123, 183 - Liapunov exponent, 12 - Linguistic task, 30 - Local Field Potential (LFP), 28, 29, 41 - Logistic equation - coupling of, 99 - Long-range coordination, 31 - Long Term Depression (LTD), 32, 33, 40, 44 - Long Term Potentiation (LTP), 32, 33, 40, 44 # **M** - Magnetoencephalography (MEG), 31, 41, 42.93 - Mahatma Gandhi, 139 - Malleability, 148 - Mark Granovetter, 145 - Marriage, 4, 17, 88, 90, 111, 175 - Martin Luther King, 140, 141 - Meaning, 4, 10, 46, 49, 51, 53, 59, 61, 65, 72-75, 77-80, 82, 83, 91, 121, 142, 177, 178 - Medial prefrontal cortex, 29, 94 - Membrane potential, 35 - Memory consolidation, 26 - Memory recall, 16, 26 - Mental - cognitive representation, 21 - Mental calibration, 72, 77-79, 81-84 - faulty calibration, 82 - too low/too high, 79, 81 - variation. 79 - Mental experience, 45, 51 - Mental processing/mental function, 22, 23, 42, 51, 57, 62, 184 - Mental state, 42, 48, 50, 56, 71, 90 - Mental structures, 49-51 - bi-stability, 50 - Meso-level structure, 130 - Middle East, 159, 160 - Mimicry, 90, 92, 94, 101 - Mind, 4-7, 18, 19, 22, 23, 31, 42, 45, 46, 48-52, 57, 60, 71-73, 75-84, 94, 101, 147, 160. 179, 183-186 - Mitral cells. 28 - Mood, 52, 55, 56, 87, 90, 95, 96, 98, 104, 111 - Motoric behaviour, 6, 7, 90 - Motor tasks. 29 - Mouse paradigm, 57-60 - Multimodal cortex. 23 # **N** - Narrative - shared, 121, 122 - National Crime, 161 - Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS), 93 - Negative feedback, 5, 56, 98 - Network - hierarchical, 130 - modularity, 43 - scale free, 13, 14 - small world, 13, 41 - sparsely connected, 13 - structure, 12, 41, 42, 126, 127 - topology, 13-16, 42, 129 - Neuronal/neural/cell ensembles/assemblies, 19, 23, 24, 26, 31, 37, 44, 45, 93 - Neuroscience, 186 - New Social Movement Theory (NSMT), 141 - Nonviolence, 140 # **O** - Obedience to authority, 155 - Olfactory bulb, 28 - Olfactory receptor neurons, 28 - Optimality hypothesis, 78 - Order parameter, 22 - Oscillations, 12, 16, 18, 23, 26, 28-31, 35, 38, 41. See also oscillatory patterning - Oscillatory - behavior, 10, 38, 39, 44 - regime, 11, 35 - trajectory, 36, 40 - Over-synchronisation, 105, 106, 123, 124 # **P** - Pacemaker node, 14 - Partners - intimate, 107 - Perceptual illusions, 8 - Performance - break down of, 81 - Personality, 60, 61, 95, 107-110, 147 - Perturbation, 12, 13, 15, 56, 59 - Petrini, Carlo, 164-166 - Phase lag(s), 25, 27 - Phase transition, 15 - Polarisation of opinions, 126 - Prevention, 55. See also regulatory focus - Profound and Peaceful Social Transition (PPST), 139-142, 146, 148, 152 - Progressive assembly, 51, 74, 183 - Progressive integration, 5, 22, 43, 62, 76, 90 - Projection Neurons (PNs), 28 - Promotion, 55. See also regulatory focus - Proximity - physical, 118, 119 - spatial, 119 - Psychological function, 4, 9, 22, 65, 136 - Psychology, 3, 8, 9, 45, 52, 71, 75, 83, 87, 98, 101, 113, 114, 147, 186 - Psychosomatic symptoms, 169 - Pyramidal Interneuron Network Gamma Rhythm (PING), 31 # **R** - Random graphs, 13, 14 - Receptive field, 26, 27, 33 - Refugee, 159, 160 - Regulatory focus, 55. See also promotion/prevention - Relations - dyadic, 4, 90, 115, 129 - formation, 107, 113 - intimate, 4 - long-term, 96. 105 - stable, 88 - Relationship - formation, 87, 107, 110, 113 - Repeller - dynamics, 55, 56, 60 - Rituals, 88, 119, 140, 170, 171, 176, 180, 185 - Robustness, 145 - Role structure, 115 - Rossler oscillator, 34-36 # **S** - Segregation of information, 25, 43 - Self-concept clarity, 60-62 - Self-esteem, 5, 60, 61, 84, 163 - Self-esteem maintenance, 55. See also high self-esteem/low self-esteem - Self-evaluation/self-evaluative thoughts, 55, 59-61, 64, 69, 70, 79, 81 - Self-organization, 46, 48, 53, 62, 70, 77. See also self-organized - Self-presentation, 4, 67, 69, 96, 101 - Self-regulation. 55, 56. 65. 75. 84. 97 - Self-reliance, 144, 159, 160, 167, 182 - Self/self-concept. 5. 7. 50. 60-62. 97 - Self-structure, 61-67, 69, 70, 72 - Self-verification, 55 - Shannon entropy, 36 - Shared reality. 117, 124 - Simplification - of dynamics, 38, 39 - of trajectories, 39 - Sleep, 17, 26, 43, 170 - Slime mold, 46, 47 - Slow Food. 164-166 - Social capital, 130, 139, 141, 142, 144-146, 152, 153, 155, 157, 160, 166, 167 - Social change. 122, 139, 145, 152, 155 - Social Entrepreneurs (SE), 155, 156, 158, 166, 167 - Social interaction, 22, 87, 92, 94, 96, 100-105, 107, 110, 111, 114, 118, 128, 136 - Social media, 124, 125, 128, 136, 153 - Social network/dynamics, 107, 114, 117, 126-128, 130, 136, 140, 143-145, 147, 152 - Social relation, 4, 85, 87, 89, 90, 92, 104, 110, 115, 126, 130, 141 - Social roles, 119 - Social units, 49, 141, 156 - Societal dynamics, 18, 114, 129, 139 - Solidarity, 123, 140-143, 145-152 - Somatic disorders, 169, 181 - Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP), 18, 26 - Stability of synchronous state. 13 - State space, 11, 59 - Stream of consciousness, 43, 46, 51, 52, 57, 66, 67, 183 - Strength of weak ties, 145 - Stronglinkers, 147 - Strong ties, 141, 146, 147 - Structural connectivity, 13. 16-18. 43 - Sub rosa, 143 - Synchronisation - among group members, 116, 118, 127. See also in groups amplitude envelope, 12 - at deeper levels, 94, 95, 103, 104, 111, 117 - behavioural, 21, 90, 93-96, 100, 103, 104, 111 - between brains, 95. See also inter-brain complete, 11, 105, 183 - dyadic, 21, 85, 89, 112, 115, 129 - error, 37, 38 event-triggered pinning synchronisation, 14 - explosive, 14 - generalised, 11 - global and persistent, 8, 16. See also global and persistent synchrony - identical, 11 - in groups, 115, 116, 118, 123, 136. See also among group members - in institutions, 134 - in-phase, 6, 89, 97, 100, 119 in social networks, 126, 130 - inter-brain, 93-95. See also between brains - intermittent, 4, 8, 9, 15-17, 22, 37, 105-107, 183-186. See also intermittent synch - intermittent cluster, 15 - interpersonal, 90, 92, 93, 95, 136 - lag, 11, 12 - mechanism of, 118 - modeling, 129 - momentary, 19, 20, 116. See also tempoгагу - neural, 21, 30, 31, 44, 45, 93, 101 - of emotional states, 94, 101 - of internal states, 90, 95, 96, 101, 102, 104, 105, 111, 117, 120, 135 - of metronomes, 92, 118 - of pendulums, 6, 118 - phase, 11, 12 - social, 6, 16, 88, 90, 119, 126, 130, 136 - societal, 124, 129, 131, 132 - spatial pattern. 130 - temporary, 20, 89, 90, 107. See also momentary - Synchronized clusters, 14-16, 119 - Synchronous state, 13, 15, 16 - Synchrony - behavioural, 90, 93-96, 100, 103, 104, 108. 111, 117 - emotional, 94 - interpersonal, 90, 92, 93, 95 - motion. 89 - Syria, 159 # **T** - Task - performance, 93, 117 - Temporal binding, 25, 26, 31 - Temporal correlation hypothesis, 24-26, 33 - Temporal patterns, 25, 28, 30, 31, 33, 70, 87, 102. 127 - Theta-frequency band, 29 - Thought/thoughts, 4-7, 15, 17, 18, 20-22, 26, 32, 41, 45, 46, 48-58, 62, 66, 69, 73, 76, 83, 84, 88, 95-98, 105, 107, 115, 118, 124, 139, 161, 176, 179, 184 - Time coding, 25 - Transformation, 11, 139-141, 145, 146, 155, 157, 163, 164, 180 - Trust, 85, 87, 105, 139, 140, 142, 144-146, 149-151, 155, 157 # **U** - Uncertainty, 73 - Unconscious/non-conscious perception, 5, 31 - Underground Solidarity movement, 140, 144, 149 # **V** - Visual cortex, 23, 24, 26, 27, 30, 33 - Visual field, 23-27, 30, 33 - Visual perception, 25 # **W** - Wapikoni, 162, 163 - Weaklinkers, 147, 148