What is The Evidence for Quantum Like Interference Effects in Human Judgments and Decision Behavior?

Abstract

This article examines the empirical evidence for interference effects in psychological experiments. It also reviews the competing interpretation of these effects with respect to traditional cognitive models and new quantum cognition models. The conclusion is that quantum theory provides unifying principles for explaining interference effects found in a wide variety of different experimental paradigms, and it provides a viable new theoretical approach for understanding cognition and decision making.

On Laws of Thought—A Quantum-like Machine Learning Approach

“…A logic tree is composed of operation set F and dataset T that determines the action taken by the "machine economist" and calculates the closing price of the Dow Jones index at the different trading points. logicTree = f(F, T) (11) With a logic tree the "machine economist" can decide the action to be taken a t and the closing price x t (d t,t−1 can be calculated by the value tree in (5)):…”

“…Recently, many quantum-like decision theories [6][7][8] have been proposed based on quantum probability to revise the mathematical structure that is used in classical models. Aerts et al first proposed to apply quantum probability in decision theory [9,10]; Busemeyer et al proposed a quantum-like model to describe human judgments and the order effect [11][12][13]; Khrennikov et al improved the Busemeyer quantum model by applying quantum instruments of quantum measurement theory [14][15][16][17][18]; Yukalov et al proposed a rigorously axiomatic quantum decision theory [19][20][21]; Xin et al proposed a quantum value operator decision theory [22].…”

The quantum-like approach to modeling classical rationality violations: an introduction

“…The following simple model (Franco 2009; see also : Busemeyer and Franco 2010;Busemeyer et al 2011;Busemeyer and Bruza 2012;Haven and Khrennikov 2013;Pothos and Busemeyer 2009Trueblood et al 2014) describes visually the question-order effect (F = feminist 'yes'; B = bank teller 'yes').…”

A survey of quantum-like approaches to decision making and cognition

“…The summary of the comparison results of all these papers are categorized in Table 3. In Busemeyer and Franco (2010), and Busemeyer and Trueblood (2011), other cognitive and decision making domains for the presence of interference effects are investigated. The domains, in which it is stated that empirical evidence for the presence of interference effects exists, are as follows: (1) Perception of ambiguous figures.…”