Institute for
Mathematical Behavioral SciencesResearch Foci
The IMBS is partitioned into five research clusters. These are listed below with associated faculty and are informal intellectual groupings, not highly formal structures.
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• Measurement Theory, Foundational Issues, and Scaling ModelsAntonelli, Barrett, Batchelder, Burton, Falmagne, Luce, Maddy, Narens, Romney, and Skyrms
• Statistical Modeling
• Cognitive: Baldi, Batchelder, Dosher, Falmagne, Iverson, Riefer, Romney, Smyth, Steyvers, Xin, Yellott,
and Zhao
• Economic: Aigner, Brownstone, Poirier, Tobias, Saari, Small and Stern
• Anthropological/Sociological: Burton, Butts, Faust, Freeman, and White• Individual Decision Making
• Perception and Psychophysics
• Vision: Braunstein, Cicerone, Chubb, DeFigueiredo, D'Zmura, Hoffman, Iverson, Palais, Romney, Sperling, Srinivasan, Yellott, and Zaho
• Psychophysics and Response Times : Brown, Falmagne, Iverson, Luce, Narens, Yellott, and Wright
• Social and Economic Phenomena
• Economics and Game Theory: Branch, Brownstone, Burton, Garfinkel, Komarova, Kopylov, McBride, Poirier, Skaperdas, Skyrms, Saari, Small, and Tobias
• Public Choice : Cohen, Glazer, Grofman, Kaminski, Keller, McGann, and Uhlaner
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