Quantum random walk is the quantum counterpart of a classical random walk. The classical
random walk concept has long been used as a computational framework for designing …

Also known as the privacy paradox, recent research on online behavior has revealed
discrepancies between user attitude and their actual behavior. More specifically: While …

Much of our understanding of human thinking is based on probabilistic models. This
innovative book by Jerome R. Busemeyer and Peter D. Bruza argues that, actually, the …

Written by world experts in the foundations of quantum mechanics and its applications to
social science, this book shows how elementary quantum mechanical principles can be …

The aim of this book is to demonstrate that quantum-like (QL) models, ie, models based on
the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics (QM) and its generalizations, can be …

Classical (Bayesian) probability (CP) theory has led to an influential research tradition for
modeling cognitive processes. Cognitive scientists have been trained to work with CP …

What type of probability theory best describes the way humans make judgments under
uncertainty and decisions under conflict? Although rational models of cognition have …

There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life
are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book …

A quantum probability model is introduced and used to explain human probability judgment
errors including the conjunction and disjunction fallacies, averaging effects, unpacking …

Two experimental tasks in psychology, the two-stage gambling game and the Prisoner's
Dilemma game, show that people violate the sure thing principle of decision theory. These …