'''Cognitive complexity''' describes [[cognition]] along a simplicity-complexity axis. It is the subject of academic study in fields including [[personal construct psychology]],<ref name='bell.2004'>{{cite webencyclopedia |last=Bell |first=R.C. |title=Cognitive complexity |encyclopedia=The Internet Encyclopaedia of Personal Construct Psychology |publisher=The Psychology of Personal Constructs |date=2004-02-14 |url=http://www.pcp-net.org/encyclopaedia/cogcom.html |accessdate=2010-04-30}}</ref> [[organizational studies|organisational theory]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www83.homepage.villanova.edu/richard.jacobs/MPA%208002/Powerpoint/cogcomp/ |title=Analyzing Organizations Through Cognitive Complexity |author=Villanova University |accessdate=29 April 2010}}</ref> and [[human–computer interaction]].<ref name='Rauterberg'>{{cite conference |title=How to Measure Cognitive Complexity in Human–Computer Interaction |last=Rauterberg |first=Matthias |year=1996 |volume=II |editor=Robert Trappl|booktitle=Proceedings of the Thirteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research |url=http://en.scientificcommons.org/17603063 |pages=815–820 |___location=University of Vienna, Austria |conference=Thirteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research |conferenceurl=http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/96/ |isbn=3-85206-133-4}}</ref>
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==Further reading==
* {{cite webencyclopedia |last=Bell |first=R.C. |title=Cognitive complexity |encyclopedia=The Internet Encyclopaedia of Personal Construct Psychology |publisher=The Psychology of Personal Constructs |date=2004-02-14 |url= http://www.pcp-net.org/encyclopaedia/cogcom.html |accessdate=2007-02-20}}
* Bryan, S. (2002). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100705084932/http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0410102-134451/unrestricted/Bryan_dis.pdf Cognitive complexity, transformational leadership, and organizational outcomes]". Dissertation in the Department of Communication Studies, Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.
* Chater, N. (1999). [http://www.dectech.org/publications/LinksNick/FoundationsTheoryAndMethodology/The%20Search%20for%20Sim%20plicity%20A%20Fundamental%20cognitive%20principle.pdf The search for simplicity: A fundamental cognitive principle?] ''The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology'', 52 (A), 273–302.
