Nikrahan Gholam Reza
Department of Psychology, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2023 Mar 7;17:1050164. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1050164. eCollection 2023.
The extant theories on the quality and stability of marital relationships have some difficulties in explaining some of the complexities of marital behaviors. The present article is an initial attempt to explain the complexities of marital behaviors based on the science of complexity and neuroscience. This article proposes a new theoretical framework relying on this simple argument that marital behaviors, as one of the most complex human behaviors, are the product of one's brain's complex adaptive system (CAS). Hence, to understand the complexities of marital behaviors, a movement toward familiarity with the brain's CAS involved in marital behaviors needs to be started. The article presents the theory of brain complexity and marital behaviors (BCM) and outlines its assumptions, concepts, and propositions. Then, BCM is compared with the extant theories on happy and stable marriage, and finally, it was concluded by discussing the testability and the potential application of the theory. This article might inspire interdisciplinary studies of marital relationships, complex systems, and neuroscience and may have considerable practical implications.
现存的关于婚姻关系质量和稳定性的理论在解释一些婚姻行为的复杂性方面存在困难。本文是基于复杂性科学和神经科学对婚姻行为的复杂性进行解释的初步尝试。本文提出了一个新的理论框架，其依据是这样一个简单的论点：婚姻行为作为人类最复杂的行为之一，是一个人大脑复杂适应系统（CAS）的产物。因此，为了理解婚姻行为的复杂性，需要着手去熟悉参与婚姻行为的大脑CAS。本文提出了大脑复杂性与婚姻行为理论（BCM），并概述了其假设、概念和命题。然后，将BCM与现存的关于幸福稳定婚姻的理论进行了比较，最后通过讨论该理论的可测试性和潜在应用得出结论。本文可能会激发对婚姻关系、复杂系统和神经科学的跨学科研究，并可能具有相当大的实际意义。
