Institute for
Mathematical Behavioral Sciences

Research 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.



  Measurement Theory, Foundational Issues, and Scaling Models

Antonelli, Barrett, Batchelder, Burton, Falmagne, Luce, Maddy, Narens, Romney, and Skyrms

Statistical Modeling

  Cognitive: Baldi, Batchelder, Dosher, Falmagne, Indow, Iverson, Riefer, Romney, Smyth, Steyvers, Xin, Yellott,
and Zhao

  Economic: Aigner, Brownstone, Poirier, Tobias, Saari, Small and Stern
  Anthropological/SociologicalBurton, Butts, Faust, Freeman, and  White

Individual Decision Making

Birnbaum, Keller, Luce, Machina, Narens, and Saari

Perception and Psychophysics

•  Vision: Braunstein, Cicerone, Chubb, DeFigueiredo, D'Zmura, Hoffman, Indow, 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: BranchBrownstone, Burton, GarfinkelKomarovaKopylov, McBride, Poirier, Skaperdas, Skyrms, Saari, Small, and Tobias

•  Public Choice : Cohen, Glazer, Grofman, Kaminski, Keller, McGann, and Uhlaner

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