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'''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 web |last=Bell |first=R.C. |title=Cognitive complexity |work=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 |authorlink=Matthias Rauterberg |year=1996 |volume=II |editor=Robert Trappl(ed) |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=3852061334}}</ref>

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