Overview

This editorial explores flexibility as a balancing act that can involve short-term and long-term change. Examples from biological systems and plant signaling are used to consider how organisms can have several possible responses while relying on a smaller number of structured processing patterns. The discussion then returns to person-and-situation interaction and the study of flexible behavioral decision-making.

Topics covered

• The relationship between stable, well-adapted structures and flexible responses to environmental change.

• Biological signaling pathways as examples of multiple alternatives supported by restricted processing patterns.

• Collecting broad person-and-situation information and connecting it to a smaller set of reasoning or signaling pathways across time.

Original publication

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