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Micro-worlds and the circular relation between people and their environment

In experiments with micro-worlds, subjects are required to interact with a computer simulation of a complex dynamic system for some period of time, bringing the simulation to some specified state and keeping it there. There are now a number of such simulations available. They allow one to bridge the gap between the laboratory and the field and make it possible to study the circular relation between people and their environment in the laboratory under controlled circumstances focusing on how people develop intentions and handle feedback, especially feedback delays, in complex systems. Research with micro-worlds has followed two strategies: an individual differences strategy and an experimental strategy. Although early studies did not succeed in finding relations between micro-world performance and psychometric variables, probably because the experiments did not yield reliable data, one now knows how to obtain such data and stable correlations between standard measures of intelligence and micro-world perfor...