My research interests follow two distinct paths. First, I have always been interested in the fractal nature of stock and other financial market prices. At Trinity, I came to realize that the old approach of applying standard tests from Physics, did not generally add significantly to the ability to forecast these data. This meant that I must start over and go back to the beginning off my research efforts. I have returned to the study of fractals as a subset of set theory. I hope that by returning to the only workable description of these series that I can gain greater insight into the nature of the dynamics of the time series.
Secondly, My academic study of cognitive psychology began in 1974 while a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Studies, Purdue University. Although my major interest at the time was psychometrics and multidimensional scaling, I was introduced to the fields of Attribution and Behavior which have since become major research interests for me. I am pursuing questions of the healing power of Buddhist philosophy as they relate to interpersonal behavior in financial markets.
While at Trinity I was introduced to the subject of ‘mindfulness’ as a behavioral model for healing deep depression. .It is a behavioral model based upon the practice and philosophy of Buddhism. The study of the practice, as distinct from the philosophy, has become to be known as “mindfulness’. The distinction between practice and philosophy is only one of relative importance since both the practice and the philosophy are reflexive. After my return from Trinity, I have spent considerable
