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Taking Complexity a Step Forward: The Reversibility of the Pedophile’s Mind

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In this chapter, I’m pointing out several novel ways in which the complexity of personality may be studied. These directions are in their infancy and much effort is needed to bring them to maturity and to prove their relevance to real-world challenges involving computational personality tasks.

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    I’m grateful to Lucas Lacasa for analyzing the time series and helping me to interpret the results.

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    I’m grateful to my colleague Dr. Norbert Marwan for conducting the RQA analysis of these time series and helping me to interpret the results.

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Neuman, Y. (2016). Taking Complexity a Step Forward: The Reversibility of the Pedophile’s Mind. In: Computational Personality Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42460-6_10

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