Integrative complexity is a measure of the intellectual style used by individuals or groups in processing information, problem-solving, and decision making.
[1] In a 1988 study it was demonstrated that changes in integrative complexity could be potentially used in international violence prediction.
[2] These findings were seen again in a 1995 article by Karen Guttieri, Michael Wallace, and Peter Suedfeld looking at the Cuban Missile Crisis.
[5] Declines in integrative complexity in diplomacy during times of crises is also a lead indicator of war, while increases in integrative complexity is a lead indicator of reaching compromise agreements that avert war.
Thinking in an integratively complex way, for example, makes one more prone to suffering from the dilution effect.