{"id":8230,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/instability\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:27","slug":"instability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/instability\/","title":{"rendered":"Instability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The loss of stability of attractors of dynamical systems induced by gradual change of parameter values of the associated differential equation (or iterative map). &nbsp;Such instabilities, also called bifurcations, are accompanied by increased variability and reduced resistance against perturbations of the state of the system. &nbsp;They can lead to large changes in state (e.g., switching to a new attractor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"attractor\">Attractor<\/a>, <a href=\"bifurcation\">Bifurcation<\/a>, Dissipative stem, Dissaipative system, <a href=\"dynamic_field_theory\">Dynamic field theory<\/a>, <a href=\"dynamical_systems_approaches\">Dynamical systems approaches<\/a>, <a href=\"stability\">Stability<\/a>, <a href=\"transition\">Transition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The loss of stability of attractors of dynamical systems induced by gradual change of parameter values of the associated differential equation (or iterative map). &nbsp;Such instabilities, also called bifurcations, are accompanied by increased variability and reduced resistance against perturbations of the state of the system. &nbsp;They can lead to large changes in state (e.g., switching &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/instability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instability&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}