Journal of Mathematical Psychology
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The official BlueSky page for the Journal of Mathematical Psychology. We publish advances in decision theory, psychometrics, neural modeling, and computational cognition. An official, peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Mathematical Psychology.
Two tests, same data, opposite conclusions. Wei, Nathoo & Masson show how model misspecification makes Bayes factors contradict ANOVA in repeated-measures designs, and random-slope models resolve the paradox! 🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022249626000039
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If we only see the choices people make, can we mathematically deduce their hidden internal rankings? By applying Shannon’s Maximum Entropy principle, this paper derives an exact algebraic formula for hidden ranking probabilities in random utility models. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How does the brain tell correlation from causation across time? Niels Verosky shows one small tweak to a classic associative learning rule lets the same machinery behind temporal difference learning compute causal contingencies, not just co-occurrences.
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The connectivity hypothesis, that stronger symptom interactions increase vulnerability to mental disorders, has been influential but never formally proven. Van der Mass & Waldop provide the first analytic derivation using mean-field Ising models of depression. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Analytical bifurcation analysis of mean-field Ising models reveals connectivity as a risk factor for psychopathology
The connectivity hypothesis, central to the increasingly influential symptom network approach to psychopathology, proposes that stronger connectivity …
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Standard correlation only captures linear relationships. A new tutorial introduces mutual information and higher-order measures that detect non-linear dependencies and multi-variable interactions pairwise methods cannot reveal. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology
In psychology, as in other sciences, information theory can be used as a tool to complement more standard regression-based methods of data analysis. I…
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