Parallel lines in life, divergent lines in science: Complexity encompasses different worlds
But how do people study events and personalities so far removed in time and place?
The seminal book, Human Information Processing (Schroder, Streufert, et al., 1967) introduced “conceptual complexity” as a personality trait that guides the cognitive aspects of processes such as creativity, problem-solving, and decision-making, including information search and evaluation, flexibility, monitoring, perspective-taking, hypothesis-building, and tolerance of heterodoxy, uncertainty and lack of closure.
