Descriptive And Normative Approaches To Human Behavior

by Lacey Perry (Editor), Ehtibar N Dzhafarov (Editor)

Overview

The aim of the book is to present side-by-side representative and cutting-edge samples of work in mathematical psychology and the analytic philosophy with prominent use of mathematical formalisms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814368001
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/14/2011
Series:	Advanced Series On Mathematical Psychology , #3
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Preface v

1 The Impossibility of a Satisfactory Population Ethics Gustaf Arrhenius 1

2 Explaining Interference Effects Using Quantum Probability Theory Jerome R. Busemeyer Jennifer S. Trueblood 27

3 Defining Goodness and Badness in Terms of Betterness Without Negation Erik Carlson 51

4 Optimality in Multisensory Integration Dynamics: Normative and Descriptive Aspects Hans Colonius Adele Diederich 67

5 On the Reverse Problem of Fechnerian Scaling Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov 91

6 Bayesian Adaptive Estimation: A Theoretical Review Janne V. Kujala 123

7 Probabilistic Lattices: Theory with an Application to Decision Theory Louis Narens 161

8 Presumption of Equality as a Requirement of Fairness Wlodek Rabinowicz 203

9 Ternary Paired Comparisons Induced by Semi- or Interval Order Preferences Michel Regenwetter Clintin P. Davis-Stober 225

10 Knowledge Spaces Regarded as Set Representations of Skill Structures Reinhard Suck 249

11 Experimental Discrimination of the World's Simplest and Most Antipodal Models: The Parallel-Serial Issue James T. Townsend Haiyuan Yang Devin M. Burns 271

12 Model Selection with Informative Normalized Maximum Likelihood: Data Prior and Model Prior Jun Zhang 303

Subject Index 321