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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Psychohistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Psychohistory derives many of its insights from areas that are perceived to be ignored by conventional historians as shaping factors of human history; in particular, the effects of childbirth, parenting practice and child abuse.
		Psychohistory holds that many political scientists and historians teach that social behaviour is usually for rational reasons rather than irrational ones, and that international violence is often instigated for economic gain.
		Psychohistory is taught at a few universities as an adjunct to history or social science or as a post graduate study.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Psychohistory (891 words)

	Psychohistory (fictional) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Psychohistory is the name of a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, which combined history, psychology and mathematical statistics to create a (nearly) exact science of the behavior of very large populations of people, such as the Galactic Empire.
		Asimov used the analogy of a gas: in a gas, the motion of a single molecule is very difficult to predict, but the mass action of the gas can be predicted to a high level of accuracy.
		The character responsible for the science's creation, Hari Seldon, established two postulates: that the population whose behaviour was modeled should be sufficiently large and that they should remain in ignorance of the results of the application of psychohistorical analyses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional) (522 words)

	Psychohistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events, combining the insights of psychotherapy with the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present.
		Psychohistory derives many of its insights from history's "dirty little secrets" such as incest, infanticide, child sacrifice, and in general child abuse.
		Psychohistory was also the name of a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy universe, which combined history, psychology and mathematical statistics to create a (nearly) exact science of the behavior of very large populations of people, such as the Galactic Empire.
	www.theezine.net /p/psychohistory.html (337 words)

	Psychohistory -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Psychohistory holds that human societies can change between infanticidal and non-infanticidal practices and has coined the term ' (Click link for more info and facts about early infanticidal childrearing) early infanticidal childrearing' to describe abuse and neglect observed by many anthropologists.
		Psychohistory holds that many (A social scientist specializing in the study of government) political scientists and historians teach that social behaviour is usually for rational reasons rather than irrational ones, and that international violence is often instigated for economic gain.
		The actual term "psychohistory" was coined by (United States writer (born in Russia) noted for his science fiction (1920-1992)) Isaac Asimov as the name for a fictional science in his (Click link for more info and facts about Foundation Trilogy) Foundation Trilogy universe.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Ps/Psychohistory.htm (940 words)

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		Psychohistory derives many of its insights from areas that are perceived to be ignored by conventional historians as shaping factors of human history; in particular, the effects of childbirth,
		Psychohistory moderated discussion group (http://www.topica.com/lists/psychohistory) about psychohistory and the study of historical motivations hosted on Topica.
		The Independence Of Psychohistory (http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/p84x104.htm) Arguments by a psychohistorian on the independence of the subject.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Psychohistory (750 words)

	Paul Halsall’s (Ancient) Annotated Bibliography on Psychohistory
		This bibliography is accented towards the psychohistory of the middle ages, and methodological essays.
		A useful collection of essays that examines the theory of psychohistory and Erikson's application of it in the case of Luther.
		He suggests that courtly love is a modern construct with no medieval social reality and that previous commentators have blended fictional with factual sources and overlooked whatever contradicts their theories.
	falcon.arts.cornell.edu /prh3/grads/psychobib.html (1858 words)

	Encyclopedia: Psychohistory (fictional)
		Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes (1854-) is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th century, created by British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
		The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of Eighteenth Century, was written by the English historian, Edward Gibbon.
		For the fictional use of the term psychohistory, see psychohistory (fictional) Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Psychohistory-(fictional) (1336 words)

	Psychohistory (fictional) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Psychohistory is the name of a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy universe, which combined history, psychology and mathematical statistics to create a (nearly) exact science of the behavior of very large populations of people, such as the Galactic Empire.
		Asimov used the analogy of a gas - In a gas, the motion of a single molecule is very difficult to predict, but the mass action of the gas can be predicted to a high level of accuracy.
		As a precursor to Asimov's psychohistory, in one of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels, a character describes the possibility of forecasting the behaviour of society using mathematical means.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/psychohistory__fictional_ (600 words)

	Read about Psychohistory at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Psychohistory and learn about Psychohistory here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Psychohistory derives many of its insights from areas that are perceived to be ignored by conventional historians as shaping factors of human history; in particular, the effects of
		Psychohistory holds that human societies can change between infanticidal and non-infanticidal practices and has coined the term '
		Psychohistory moderated discussion group (http://www.topica.com/lists/psychohistory) about psychohistory and the study of historical motivations hosted on Topica.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Psychohistory (824 words)

	Encyclopedia: Psychohistory
		Early infanticidal childrearing is a psychohistorical model developed by Lloyd deMause within the framework of psychohistory which purports that childrearing in the paleolithic era and in contemporary pre-literate hunter-gatherer tribes can be summarized by three basic ideas: children are not considered human infants are useful to parents as...
		Psychobiography is a type of biography that seeks to understand individual, often historical, people and their motivations in history.
		Its director is Lloyd deMause, Lloyd deMause (born September 19, 1931) is a psychologist who claims to have created the academic field of psychohistory.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Psychohistory (1718 words)

	Isaac Asimov Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		"Nightfall" is an archetypical example of social science fiction, a term coined by Asimov to describe a new trend in the 1940's, led by authors including Asimov and Heinlein, away from gadgets and space opera and toward speculation about the human condition.
		The series features his fictional science of Psychohistory in which the future course of the history of large populations can be predicted.
		His words do not easily lend themselves to traditional literary criticism because he has the habit of centering his fiction on plot and clearly stating to his reader, in rather direct terms, what is happening in his stories and why it is happening.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Isaac_Asimov (5719 words)

	Psychohistory: The Terrible Beauty of the Confluence of History and Psychology
		For Dostoyevsky, this would be the natural course of his fictional masterpieces--the purification of character through the absorption of illuminating suffering.
		Poets have demonstrated a remarkable capacity for this but some of the best are writing their own psychohistory - their own reflections of their personal experiences of survival and of madness.
		Perhaps this too is the venue of the psychohistorian, who truly seeks to comprehend and vivify the intimate connection of trauma and history.
	www.aaets.org /arts/art25.htm (1256 words)

	The Foundation Series -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Foundation Series is an epic (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction series written over a span of forty-nine years by (United States writer (born in Russia) noted for his science fiction (1920-1992)) Isaac Asimov.
		It is not set in the same fictional universe as the Foundation series, but the universe described in it is very much similar to that of the Foundation series, being a clear and conscious borrowing.
		The novel explores the ideas of psychohistory into a number of new directions, inspired by more recent developments in mathematics and (The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures) computer science, as well as by new ideas in science fiction itself.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_foundation_series.htm (2337 words)

	Asimov, Isaac History - Asimov, Isaac Information
		His fictional "Psychohistory" proposes mathematical prediction of future human events; but his final stories show that he was skeptical of this idea.
		Asimov once described science fiction as "that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance upon human beings." Asimov took that definition seriously, and wrote many millions of words to prove his point.
		Nevertheless, his fictional portrayals of the relationship between computers and human beings had an impact on the development and integration of computer technology in modern society.
	www.bookrags.com /sciences/computerscience/asimov-isaac-csci-03.html (1206 words)

	History found in a grain of sand (November 2000) - Review - PhysicsWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hari Seldon, the fictional creator of "psychohistory" in Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series of novels, predicts the imminent demise of the First Galactic Empire after a 12 millennium run and establishes the Foundation on a planet at the galaxy's edge.
		Seldon's plan is based on psychohistory - "that branch of mathematics which deals with the reactions of human conglomerates to fixed social and economic stimuli".
		If Asimov were alive today, psychohistory might be the science of the critical state, and the creaking might be the tell-tale signature of collapse.
	physicsweb.org /article/review/13/11/3 (1333 words)

	Bel Riose - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, the fictional character Bel Riose was the last strong General of the Galactic Empire, Commander of the legendary Twentieth Fleet, who eventually came to be known as "the Last of the Imperials", and earned this title well.
		With several of the last great "ships of the line", pinnacle of Imperial technological and military prowess (of which few remained in these degenerate times), General Bel Riose set out into the barbarian Galactic Periphery to claim the Foundation in the name of Empire and Emperor.
		Seldon had predicted that the Foundation would survive all trials, and Bel Riose knew this, but he bet his living will against the "dead hand" of Seldon's psychohistory.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Bel_Riose (604 words)

	Archive of fictional things - free-definition
		This is a (theoretically) all-encompassing list of fictional things created in the media.
		Fictional characters who are from Fort Wayne, Indiana
		Fictional characters who have an asteroid named after them
	www.netlexikon.akademie.de /Archive-of-fictional-things.html (329 words)

	The Foundation Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The premise of the series is that mathematician Hari Seldon has spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory (fictional)psychohistory, a concept devised by Asimov and his editor John W. Campbell.
		The novel explores the ideas of psychohistory into a number of new directions, inspired by more recent developments in mathematics and computer science, as well as by new ideas in science fiction itself.
		It has been speculated (most prominently in the science fiction 'zines ''Ansible'' (No. 172, November 2001) and ''Locus (magazine)Locus'' that the Foundation trilogy, which has had considerable success in the Middle East, was the source of the name of the terrorist group Al-Qaida.
	www.infothis.com /find/The_Foundation_Series (2409 words)

	Psychohistory - Psychohistory - is it possible? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Psychohistory was also the name of a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's Of course, there's always the case to be made that psychohistory was just a
		In the same way that psychology was extended to cover groups, The potential of psychohistory was dramatised in the "foundation" novels of
		It involves the analysis of This book is a psychohistory of gay men.
	www.publicdomainname.com /pdn/psychohistory.html (202 words)

	Psychohistory (fictional) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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	Psychohistory (fictional) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Psychohistory (fictional) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The character responsible for the science's creation, (Click link for more info and facts about Hari Seldon) Hari Seldon, established two postulates: that the population whose behaviour was modeled should be sufficiently large and that they should remain in ignorance of the results of the application of psychohistorical analyses.
		In one of (English author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)) Arthur Conan Doyle's (A fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle) Sherlock Holmes novels, a character describes the possibility of forecasting the behaviour of society using mathematical means.
	absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/ps/psychohistory_(fictional).htm (562 words)

	Psychohistory Was Hari Seldon pulling our leg?
		But the original trilogy stood on its own for more than thirty years, and it is entirely fair to judge the concept of psychohistory presented in it, unmodified by Asimov's afterthoughts, exactly as it confronted readers for decades.
		But we are told many times that psychohistory can't handle the complexity of a world that has psychohistorians in it.
		When psychohistory is translated into words, it becomes poli sci-- and nothing novel or striking, like Marvin Harris or Jane Jacobs; very conventional stuff.
	www.zompist.com /psihist.html (3425 words)

	Thought Contagion by Aaron Lynch: A Response to Paul Marsden
		An honest reading of the chapter, however, reveals that it is presented as nothing more than an abbreviated overview of the relationship between thought contagion memetics to the social sciences.
		In the science fiction story, a psychohistorian can predict most of society's behavior far into the future and quite precisely.
		Thought contagion memetics might never amount to the stuff of science fiction, but it can make an important contribution to the understanding of history and the human condition.
	jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk /2/3/lynch.html (2464 words)

	Psychohistory (ficticio) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Psychohistory es el nombre de una ciencia ficticia en el universo de la fundación de Isaac Asimov, que combinó historia, la psicología y la estadística matemática para crear la ciencia exacta de a (casi) del comportamiento de poblaciones muy grandes de la gente, tales como el imperio galáctico.
		Los precursores a Asimovian psychohistory existen a otra parte en el canon literario occidental.
		Es decir la gente discute todo el posible todas las maneras posibles de parecer psychohistory y de decidir si es bueno o malo.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ps/Psychohistory%20%28ficticio%29.htm (646 words)

	psychohistory.org - Home:
		This site is committed to further research into the mathematics of psychohistory as described by Issac Asimov in his Foundation novels.
		Though purely fictional at this point, psychohistory purportedly allows insight into future events by extrapolating cues from history.
		Share your thoughts on psychohistory, the Foundation novels, or Isaac Asimov in the forums.
	www.psychohistory.org (158 words)

	Asimov's Psychohistory: Political science in another guise? (Signifying Nothing: Tell 'em about it, Joe-Joe!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Since I spent much of the weekend laid up with the seemingly annual recurrence of my sprained ankle, I finally got around to doing some light reading.
		Much of the plot of the series revolves around the invention and seeming perfection of “psychohistory” by Hari Seldon, and the consequences thereof.
		Of course, there's always the case to be made that psychohistory was just a Grade-A McGuffin...
	blog.lordsutch.com /?entryid=307 (435 words)

	Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Furthermore, the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' credits his science fiction for introducing the words ''positronic,'' ''psychohistory (fictional)psychohistory'' and ''robotics/'' into the English language.
		The first of these words applies to an entirely fictional technology, while the second is frequently used in a different sense than Asimov employed; however, ''robotics'' continues in widespread use with essentially Asimov's original definition.
		The series features his fictional science of Psychohistory (fictional)Psychohistory/ in which the future course of the history of large populations can be predicted.
	www.infothis.com /find/Isaac_Asimov (4327 words)

	The Ultimate Seldon Plan - American History Information Guide and Reference
		The Seldon Plan is the central theme of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series of stories and novels.
		Hari Seldon devised the Seldon Plan using psychohistory.
		It consisted of a planned path of historical development for a newly created nation called the Foundation.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Seldon_Plan (93 words)

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