Mathematical Psychology

This project investigates mathematical psychology's historical and philosophical foundations to clarify its distinguishing characteristics and relationships to adjacent fields. Through gathering primary sources, histories, and interviews with researchers, author Prof. Colin Allen - University of Pittsburgh [1, 2, 3] and his students Osman Attah, Brendan Fleig-Goldstein, Mara McGuire, and Dzintra Ullis have identified three central questions:

What makes the use of mathematics in mathematical psychology reasonably effective, in contrast to other sciences like physics-inspired mathematical biology or symbolic cognitive science?
How does the mathematical approach in mathematical psychology differ from other branches of psychology, like psychophysics and psychometrics?
What is the appropriate relationship of mathematical psychology to cognitive science, given diverging perspectives on aligning with this field?

Preliminary findings emphasize data-driven modeling, skepticism of cognitive science alignments, and early reliance on computation. They will further probe the interplay with cognitive neuroscience and contrast rational-analysis approaches. By elucidating the motivating perspectives and objectives of different eras in mathematical psychology's development, they aim to understand its past and inform constructive dialogue on its philosophical foundations and future directions. This project intends to provide a conceptual roadmap for the field through integrated history and philosophy of science.

The Project: Integrating History and Philosophy of Mathematical Psychology

This project aims to integrate historical and philosophical perspectives to elucidate the foundations of mathematical psychology. As Norwood Hanson stated, history without philosophy is blind, while philosophy without history is empty. The goal is to find a middle ground between the contextual focus of history and the conceptual focus of philosophy.

The team acknowledges that all historical accounts are imperfect, but some can provide valuable insights. The history of mathematical psychology is difficult to tell without centering on the influential Stanford group. Tracing academic lineages and key events includes part of the picture, but more context is needed to fully understand the field's development.

The project draws on diverse sources, including research interviews, retrospective articles, formal histories, and online materials. More interviews and research will further flesh out the historical and philosophical foundations. While incomplete, the current analysis aims to identify important themes, contrasts, and questions that shaped mathematical psychology's evolution. Ultimately, the goal is an integrated historical and conceptual roadmap to inform contemporary perspectives on the field's identity and future directions.

The Rise of Mathematical Psychology

The history of efforts to mathematize psychology traces back to the quantitative imperative stemming from the Galilean scientific revolution. This imprinted the notion that proper science requires mathematics, leading to "physics envy" in other disciplines like psychology.

Many early psychologists argued psychology needed to become mathematical to be scientific. However, mathematizing psychology faced complications absent in the physical sciences. Objects in psychology were not readily present as quantifiable, provoking heated debates on whether psychometric and psychophysical measurements were meaningful.

Nonetheless, the desire to develop mathematical psychology persisted. Different approaches grappled with determining the appropriate role of mathematics in relation to psychological experiments and data. For example, Herbart favored starting with mathematics to ensure accuracy, while Fechner insisted experiments must come first to ground mathematics.

Tensions remain between data-driven versus theory-driven mathematization of psychology. Contemporary perspectives range from psychometric and psychophysical stances that foreground data to measurement-theoretical and computational approaches that emphasize formal models.

Elucidating how psychologists negotiated to apply mathematical methods to an apparently resistant subject matter helps reveal the evolving role and place of mathematics in psychology. This historical interplay shaped the emergence of mathematical psychology as a field.

The Distinctive Mathematical Approach of Mathematical Psychology

What sets mathematical psychology apart from other branches of psychology in its use of mathematics?

Several key aspects stand out:

Advocating quantitative methods broadly. Mathematical psychology emerged partly to push psychology to embrace quantitative modeling and mathematics beyond basic statistics.
Drawing from diverse mathematical tools. With greater training in mathematics, mathematical psychologists utilize more advanced and varied mathematical techniques like topology and differential geometry.
Linking models and experiments. Mathematical psychologists emphasize tightly connecting experimental design and statistical analysis, with experiments created to test specific models.
Favoring theoretical models. Mathematical psychology incorporates "pure" mathematical results and prefers analytic, hand-fitted models over data-driven computer models.
Seeking general, cumulative theory. Unlike just describing data, mathematical psychology aspires to abstract, general theory supported across experiments, cumulative progress in models, and mathematical insight into psychological mechanisms.

So while not unique to mathematical psychology, these key elements help characterize how its use of mathematics diverges from adjacent fields like psychophysics and psychometrics. Mathematical psychology carved out an identity embracing quantitative methods but also theoretical depth and broad generalization.

Situating Mathematical Psychology Relative to Cognitive Science

What is the appropriate perspective on mathematical psychology's relationship to cognitive psychology and cognitive science? While connected historically and conceptually, essential distinctions exist.

Mathematical psychology draws from diverse disciplines that are also influential in cognitive science, like computer science, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. However, mathematical psychology appears more skeptical of alignments with cognitive science.

For example, cognitive science prominently adopted the computer as a model of the human mind, while mathematical psychology focused more narrowly on computers as modeling tools.

Additionally, mathematical psychology seems to take a more critical stance towards purely simulation-based modeling in cognitive science, instead emphasizing iterative modeling tightly linked to experimentation.

Overall, mathematical psychology exhibits significant overlap with cognitive science but strongly asserts its distinct mathematical orientation and modeling perspectives. Elucidating this complex relationship remains an ongoing project, but preliminary analysis suggests mathematical psychology intentionally diverged from cognitive science in its formative development.

This establishes mathematical psychology's separate identity while retaining connections to adjacent disciplines at the intersection of mathematics, psychology, and computation.

Looking Ahead: Open Questions and Future Research

This historical and conceptual analysis of mathematical psychology's foundations has illuminated key themes, contrasts, and questions that shaped the field's development. Further research can build on these preliminary findings.

Additional work is needed to flesh out the fuller intellectual, social, and political context driving the evolution of mathematical psychology. Examining the influences and reactions of key figures will provide a richer picture.

Ongoing investigation can probe whether the identified tensions and contrasts represent historical artifacts or still animate contemporary debates. Do mathematical psychologists today grapple with similar questions on the role of mathematics and modeling?

Further analysis should also elucidate the nature of the purported bidirectional relationship between modeling and experimentation in mathematical psychology. As well, clarifying the diversity of perspectives on goals like generality, abstraction, and cumulative theory-building would be valuable.

Finally, this research aims to spur discussion on philosophical issues such as realism, pluralism, and progress in mathematical psychology models. Is the accuracy and truth value of models an important consideration or mainly beside the point? And where is the field headed - towards greater verisimilitude or an indefinite balancing of complexity and abstraction?

By spurring reflection on this conceptual foundation, this historical and integrative analysis hopes to provide a roadmap to inform constructive dialogue on mathematical psychology's identity and future trajectory.

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Normalna distribucija, William Sealy Gosset (student) r = 0.0353

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Distribucija	Ne normalan	Normalan	Ne normalan	Normalan	Normalan	Normalan	Normalan	Normalan
Sva pitanja Sva pitanja Moj najveći strah je
Moj najveći strah je
Answer 1	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0297	Slaba pozitivan 0.0298	Slaba negativan -0.0106	Slaba pozitivan 0.0970	Slaba pozitivan 0.0325	Slaba negativan -0.0019	Slaba negativan -0.1558
Answer 2	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0188	Slaba pozitivan 0.0076	Slaba negativan -0.0360	Slaba pozitivan 0.0711	Slaba pozitivan 0.0387	Slaba pozitivan 0.0082	Slaba negativan -0.1011
Answer 3	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0026	Slaba negativan -0.0170	Slaba negativan -0.0443	Slaba negativan -0.0458	Slaba pozitivan 0.0547	Slaba pozitivan 0.0808	Slaba negativan -0.0270
Answer 4	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0332	Slaba pozitivan 0.0285	Slaba negativan -0.0006	Slaba pozitivan 0.0155	Slaba pozitivan 0.0276	Slaba pozitivan 0.0105	Slaba negativan -0.0917
Answer 5	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0122	Slaba pozitivan 0.1193	Slaba pozitivan 0.0095	Slaba pozitivan 0.0721	Slaba pozitivan 0.0057	Slaba negativan -0.0083	Slaba negativan -0.1687
Answer 6	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0044	Slaba pozitivan 0.0005	Slaba negativan -0.0582	Slaba negativan -0.0004	Slaba pozitivan 0.0210	Slaba pozitivan 0.0830	Slaba negativan -0.0418
Answer 7	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0242	Slaba pozitivan 0.0368	Slaba negativan -0.0521	Slaba negativan -0.0234	Slaba pozitivan 0.0403	Slaba pozitivan 0.0568	Slaba negativan -0.0597
Answer 8	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0707	Slaba pozitivan 0.0781	Slaba negativan -0.0244	Slaba pozitivan 0.0140	Slaba pozitivan 0.0303	Slaba pozitivan 0.0137	Slaba negativan -0.1334
Answer 9	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0564	Slaba pozitivan 0.1531	Slaba pozitivan 0.0127	Slaba pozitivan 0.0769	Slaba negativan -0.0136	Slaba negativan -0.0495	Slaba negativan -0.1752
Answer 10	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0711	Slaba pozitivan 0.0700	Slaba negativan -0.0127	Slaba pozitivan 0.0246	Slaba pozitivan 0.0363	Slaba negativan -0.0156	Slaba negativan -0.1273
Answer 11	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0542	Slaba pozitivan 0.0488	Slaba pozitivan 0.0086	Slaba pozitivan 0.0078	Slaba pozitivan 0.0162	Slaba pozitivan 0.0315	Slaba negativan -0.1248
Answer 12	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0281	Slaba pozitivan 0.0929	Slaba negativan -0.0325	Slaba pozitivan 0.0361	Slaba pozitivan 0.0276	Slaba pozitivan 0.0365	Slaba negativan -0.1482
Answer 13	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0643	Slaba pozitivan 0.0916	Slaba negativan -0.0418	Slaba pozitivan 0.0237	Slaba pozitivan 0.0425	Slaba pozitivan 0.0239	Slaba negativan -0.1558
Answer 14	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0697	Slaba pozitivan 0.1017	Slaba pozitivan 0.0149	Slaba negativan -0.0062	Slaba negativan -0.0087	Slaba negativan -0.0002	Slaba negativan -0.1161
Answer 15	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0603	Slaba pozitivan 0.1299	Slaba negativan -0.0379	Slaba pozitivan 0.0163	Slaba negativan -0.0091	Slaba pozitivan 0.0164	Slaba negativan -0.1204
Answer 16	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0691	Slaba pozitivan 0.0221	Slaba negativan -0.0305	Slaba negativan -0.0515	Slaba pozitivan 0.0750	Slaba pozitivan 0.0187	Slaba negativan -0.0696

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2023.10.13

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Valerii je 1993. kvalificiran kao socijalni pedagogue-psiholog i od tada je svoje znanje primijenio u upravljanju projektima.
Valerii je stekao magisterij, a kvalifikacija za projekt i voditelj programa 2013. godine. Tijekom svog magistriranog programa upoznao se s Project Roadmapom (GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Projektmanagement E. V.) i Spiral Dynamics.
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