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Contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Human Relations: VI. Periodic Fluctuations in the Behavior of Social Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

N. Rashevsky
N. Rashevsky*
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago
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Abstract

A case of interaction between two groups of “active” and one group of “passive” individuals, in which the efforts of the influencing active groups decrease with increasing total success in the past, is studied. In that case the numbers of passive individuals, exhibiting respectively the two opposite behaviors, fluctuate periodically, with a positive damping.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 1943 , pp. 81 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © 1943 The Psychometric Society

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