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 …

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 …

Following an early claim by Nelson and McEvoy suggesting that word associations can
display 'spooky action at a distance behaviour', a serious investigation of the potentially …

In the 21st century, various socio-economic crises have revealed that traditional economic
science and (neo) classical thinking are unable to explain all the complexity of current …

Purpose–To develop a theory of concepts that solves the combination problem, ie to deliver
a description of the combination of concepts. We also investigate the so‐called “pet fish …

Purpose–To elaborate a theory for modeling concepts that incorporates how a context
influences the typicality of a single exemplar and the applicability of a single property of a …

Recent work in cognitive psychology has revealed that quantum probability theory provides
another method of computing probabilities without falling into the restrictions that classical …

Selection theory requires multiple, distinct, simultaneously‐actualized states. In cognition,
each thought or cognitive state changes the 'selection pressure'against which the next is …

Psychology has had difficulty accounting for the creative, context-sensitive manner in which
concepts are used. We believe this stems from the view of concepts as identifiers rather than …

The context-sensitivity of cognition has been demonstrated across a wide range of cognitive
functions such as perception, memory, judgement and decision making. A related …