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 = 0.0335

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Distribucija	Ne normalan	Ne normalan	Ne normalan	Normalan	Normalan	Normalan	Normalan	Normalan
Sva pitanja Sva pitanja Moj najveći strah je
Moj najveći strah je
Answer 1	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0521	Slaba pozitivan 0.0294	Slaba negativan -0.0147	Slaba pozitivan 0.0885	Slaba pozitivan 0.0316	Slaba negativan -0.0110	Slaba negativan -0.1513
Answer 2	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0213	Slaba pozitivan 0.0013	Slaba negativan -0.0432	Slaba pozitivan 0.0618	Slaba pozitivan 0.0453	Slaba pozitivan 0.0103	Slaba negativan -0.0918
Answer 3	-	Slaba negativan -0.0042	Slaba negativan -0.0116	Slaba negativan -0.0406	Slaba negativan -0.0477	Slaba pozitivan 0.0487	Slaba pozitivan 0.0767	Slaba negativan -0.0191
Answer 4	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0421	Slaba pozitivan 0.0350	Slaba negativan -0.0115	Slaba pozitivan 0.0112	Slaba pozitivan 0.0307	Slaba pozitivan 0.0175	Slaba negativan -0.0980
Answer 5	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0288	Slaba pozitivan 0.1272	Slaba pozitivan 0.0146	Slaba pozitivan 0.0697	Slaba pozitivan 0.0037	Slaba negativan -0.0215	Slaba negativan -0.1746
Answer 6	-	Slaba negativan -0.0001	Slaba pozitivan 0.0042	Slaba negativan -0.0607	Slaba negativan -0.0115	Slaba pozitivan 0.0231	Slaba pozitivan 0.0826	Slaba negativan -0.0309
Answer 7	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0117	Slaba pozitivan 0.0372	Slaba negativan -0.0653	Slaba negativan -0.0283	Slaba pozitivan 0.0495	Slaba pozitivan 0.0626	Slaba negativan -0.0505
Answer 8	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0658	Slaba pozitivan 0.0830	Slaba negativan -0.0310	Slaba pozitivan 0.0139	Slaba pozitivan 0.0334	Slaba pozitivan 0.0134	Slaba negativan -0.1322
Answer 9	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0660	Slaba pozitivan 0.1658	Slaba pozitivan 0.0051	Slaba pozitivan 0.0691	Slaba negativan -0.0093	Slaba negativan -0.0498	Slaba negativan -0.1820
Answer 10	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0758	Slaba pozitivan 0.0724	Slaba negativan -0.0173	Slaba pozitivan 0.0236	Slaba pozitivan 0.0312	Slaba negativan -0.0115	Slaba negativan -0.1263
Answer 11	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0577	Slaba pozitivan 0.0544	Slaba negativan -0.0075	Slaba pozitivan 0.0082	Slaba pozitivan 0.0185	Slaba pozitivan 0.0293	Slaba negativan -0.1190
Answer 12	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0376	Slaba pozitivan 0.1007	Slaba negativan -0.0342	Slaba pozitivan 0.0296	Slaba pozitivan 0.0273	Slaba pozitivan 0.0341	Slaba negativan -0.1500
Answer 13	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0627	Slaba pozitivan 0.1017	Slaba negativan -0.0443	Slaba pozitivan 0.0248	Slaba pozitivan 0.0434	Slaba pozitivan 0.0189	Slaba negativan -0.1576
Answer 14	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0732	Slaba pozitivan 0.1036	Slaba pozitivan 0.0048	Slaba negativan -0.0105	Slaba negativan -0.0039	Slaba pozitivan 0.0041	Slaba negativan -0.1157
Answer 15	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0539	Slaba pozitivan 0.1381	Slaba negativan -0.0424	Slaba pozitivan 0.0163	Slaba negativan -0.0147	Slaba pozitivan 0.0216	Slaba negativan -0.1173
Answer 16	-	Slaba pozitivan 0.0590	Slaba pozitivan 0.0274	Slaba negativan -0.0375	Slaba negativan -0.0429	Slaba pozitivan 0.0687	Slaba pozitivan 0.0253	Slaba negativan -0.0698

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[3] https://philpeople.org/profiles/colin-allen

2023.10.13

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