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True Contextuality Beats Direct Influences in Human Decision Making
City Univ London, UK.
Purdue Univ, USA.
Purdue Univ, USA.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1909-7706
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Technology, Department of Mathematics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9857-0938
2019 (English)In: Journal of experimental psychology. General, ISSN 0096-3445, E-ISSN 1939-2222, Vol. 148, no 11, p. 1925-1937Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In quantum physics there are well-known situations when measurements of the same property in different contexts (under different conditions) have the same probability distribution but cannot be represented by one and the same random variable. Such systems of random variables are called contextual. More generally, true contextuality is observed when different contexts force measurements of the same property (in psychology, responses to the same question) to be more dissimilar random variables than warranted by the difference of their distributions. The difference in distributions is itself a form of context-dependence but of another nature: it is attributable to direct causal influences exerted by contexts upon the random variables. The Contextuality-by-Default theory allows one to separate true contextuality from direct influences in the overall context-dependence. The Contextuality-by-Default analysis of numerous previous attempts to demonstrate contextuality in human judgments shows that all context-dependence in them can be accounted for by direct influences, with no true contextuality present. However, contextual systems in human behavior can be found. In this paper we present a series of crowd-sourcing experiments that exhibit true contextuality in simple decision making. The design of these experiments is an elaboration of one introduced in the Snow Queen experiment (Decision 5, 193-204, 2018), in which contextuality was for the first time demonstrated unequivocally.

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American Psychological Association (APA), 2019. Vol. 148, no 11, p. 1925-1937
Keywords [en]
concept combinations, context-dependence, contextuality, direct influences
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Psychology Mathematics
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Social Sciences, Psychology; Natural Science, Mathematics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-89965DOI: 10.1037/xge0000585ISI: 000491284400005PubMedID: 31021152Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85064933034OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-89965DiVA, id: diva2:1368830
Available from: 2019-11-08 Created: 2019-11-08 Last updated: 2021-02-03Bibliographically approved

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