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The First Steps Towards Asimov's Psychohistory?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the formulaic-relationships dept.

lawrencekhoo writes "The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting article about the Gottman Institute's (a.k.a. the love lab) work on modeling the dynamics of marital conversations. These models are described in John Gottman et. al.'s recent book The Mathematics of Marriage: Dynamic Nonlinear Models (MIT Press). Should be an interesting read for anyone who ever wondered if human interactions could be mathematically modeled."

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  1. Useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thanks for nothing...then again, judging from the average slashdot post, there will still be plenty of comments since no one ever reads the articles anyway...

  2. Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, but you're a moron so really, who cares what you think. There's a giant invisible man in the sky who's magic. Yeah right dipshit.

  3. Re:The married life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "we don't talk of ditching kids, we talk of helping kids become strong, useful members of society."

    Ah, so you're another one of those incest types, eh? Don't ditch the kids, honey, the kids will be interested in how the ol' in-out in-out works.

    The kids aren't a problem as long as they remember that vaseline isn't a good lube. Petroluem jelly will eat right through my wife's ball gag which upsets the kids because they know she's not supposed to talk.

    Quiet mommy, daddy's coming in the back door.

    I won't even mention salad tossing.