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1993

MBS 93-01
Chaos and the Explanatory Significance of Equilibrium: Strange Attractors in Evolutionary Game Theory
Brian Skyrms

MBS 93-02
Tests of Consequence Monotonicity in Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Detlof von Winterfeldt, Ngar-Kok Chung and Duncan Luce

MBS 93-03
On the interpretation of the exponent in the "near-miss-to-Weber's-Law"
Jean-Claude Falmagne

MBS 93-04
Implicit Contracts and the Determination of Hours Worked
Paul Beaudry and John Di Nardo

MBS 93-05
Adams Conditionals
Brian Skyrms

MBS 93-06
Modeling Negative Campaigning
Stergios Skaperdas and Bernard Grofman

MBS 93-07
Deliberational Correlated Equilibria
Peter Vanderschraff and Brian Skyrms

MBS 93-08
Edgeworth and the Traveling Salesman: Bounded Rationality and the Complexity of Economic Organization
Arthur De Vany

MBS 93-09
Self-Insurance and Self-Protection: A Non-Expected Utility analysis
Kai Konrad and Stergios Skaperdas

MBS 93-10
Analysis of Single Sequence of Words Retrieved from Long Term Memory
Tarow Indow

MBS 93-11
Retention Curves of Artificial and Natural Memory: Tight and Soft Models
Tarow Indow

MBS 93-12
Observer Theory, Bayes Theory and Psychopohysics
Bruce Bennett, Don Hoffman, Chetan Prakash, Scott Richman

MBS 93-13
Material Culture, Geographic Propinquity, and Linguistic Affiliation on the North Coast of New Guinea: A Reanalysis of Welsch, Terrell, and Nadolski (1992)
Carmella Moore, A. Kimball Romney

MBS 93-14
Commentary on L. L. Thurstone's "A Law of Comparative Judgment"
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 93-15
Systematic Biases in Social Perception
Ece Kumbasar, A. Kimball Romney, William Batchelder

MBS 93-16
Hard Cores and Soft Cores: Evolving Coalitions, Edgeworth and the Boltzmann Machine
Arthur DeVany

MBS 93-17
Tests of Assumptions About the Joint Receipt of Gambles in Rank- and Sign- Dependent Utility Theory
Younghee Cho, Duncan Luce, Detlof von Winterfeldt

MBS 93-18
Criteria for Color Constancy in Trichromatic Bilinear Models
Geoffrey Iverson, Michael D'Zmura

MBS 93-19
Measuring Memory Factors in Monitoring: Reply to Kinchla
William Batchelder, David Riefer, Xiangen Hu

MBS 93-20
Detection of Contrary Chromatic Change
Michael D'Zmura, Anoop Mangalick

MBS 93-21
Color Contrast Induction
Benjamin Singer, Michael D'Zmura

MBS 93-22
Random Utility Models for Approval Voting
Jean-Claude Falmagne, Michael Regenwetter

MBS 93-23
Meshing Knowledge Structures
Jean-Claude Falmagne, Jean-Pail Doignon

MBS 93-24
Parallel Shift of Psychometric Function in Cutaneous and Color Discrimination
Tarow Indow

MBS 93-25
Information Cost, Variety, and Efficiency in Market Institutions
Arthur DeVany, Amihai Glazer

MBS 93-26
The Distribution of Income in the Presence of Directly Unproductive Activities
Stergios Skaperdas

MBS 93-27
The Effect of Risk Aversion in Contests
Stergios Skaperdas, Constantinos Syropoulos

MBS 93-28
Joint Receipt and Certainty Equivalents
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 93-29
Bootstrap Confidence Bands for Shrinkage Estimators
David Brownstone, Camilla Kazimi

MBS 93-30
Analyses of Events Counted on Time-Dimension: A Soft Model Based on Extreme Statistics
Tarow Indow

MBS 93-31
An Ergodic Theory for the Emergence and the Evolution of Preference Relations
Jean-Claude Falmagne

MBS 93-32
The Core and the Hedonic Core: Equivalence and Comparative Statics
Greg Engl and Suzanne Scotchmer

MBS 93-33
Lower Hemicontinuity of the Nash Equilibrium Correspondence
Greg Engl

MBS 93-34
From the Representation of Rationality to the Representation of Free Will
Vladimir A. Lefebvre

MBS 93-35
Joint Receipt and Thaler's Hedonic Editing Rule
Peter C. Fishburn and R. Duncan Luce

MBS 93-36
Probabilistic Color Constancy
Michael D'Zmura, Geoffrey Iverson, Benjamin Singer

MBS 93-37
Innovation Tournaments: An Analysis of Rank, Diffusion and Survival in Motion Pictures
Arthur De Vany, W. David Walls

MBS 93-38
Color Constancy. III. General linear recovery of spectral descriptions for lights and surfaces.
Michael D'Zmura, Geoffrey Iverson

MBS 93-39
Toward a Distribution-Free Decomposition of Simple Reaction Time
Jeffrey N. Rouder

MBS 93-40
The Effect of Inference Order and Experience-Related Knowledge on Diagnostic Conjunction Probabilities
Joanna L. Ho, L. Robin Keller

MBS 93-41
A Schur-Concave Characterization of Risk Aversion for Non-Expected Utility Preferences
S. H. Chew, M. H. Mao

MBS 93-42
When Barriers to Markets Fall: Open Access and the Emergence of a Competitive Natural Gas Market
Arthur De Vany, W. David Walls

MBS 93-43
The Representational Measurement Approach to Psychophysical and Judgmental Problems
Geoffrey Iverson, Duncan Luce

MBS 93-44
A Measurement-Theoretic Analysis of Massaro's Fuzzy Logic Model of Perception
Court S. Crowther, William H. Batchelder and Xiangen Hu


1994

MBS 94-01
An Application of a Stochastic Knowledge Structure Model
K. Lakshminarayan, F. Gilson

MBS 94-02
An Unsupervised Method for Learning to Track Tongue Position from an Acoustical Signal
John Hogden

MBS 94-03
A Multinomial Modeling Analysis of the Recognition-Failure Paradigm
William Batchelder

MBS 94-04
Fair Processing for Societal Decisions Involving Distributional Inequalities
L. Robin Keller, R. Sarin

MBS 94-05
Random Utility Representations of Finite m-ary Relations
Michel Regenwetter

MBS 94-06
Multiple Awareness and Heat Engines
Vladimir Lefebvre

MBS 94-07
(Paper withdrawn)

MBS 94-08
Inductive Learning, Knowledge Asymmetries and Convention
Peter Vanderschraaf

MBS 94-09
Information, Chance, and Evolution: Alchian and the Economics Self-Organization
Arthur De Vany

MBS 94-10
Contrast Gain Control: A Bilinear Model for Color Selectivity
Benjamin Singer, Michael D'Zmura

MBS 94-11
Recognition Polynomials Reduce the Complexity of Matching in Object Recognition
Marc K. Albert, Donald D. Hoffman, Manish Singh

MBS 94-12
The Law of One Price in a Network: Arbitrage and Price Dynamics in Natural Gas city gate Market
Arthur De Vany

MBS 94-13
Predicting Similarity in Material Culture Among New Guinea Villages From Propinquity and Language: A Log-Linear Approach
John M. Roberts, Jr., Carmella C. Moore, A. Kimball Romney

MBS 94-14
Test of Hypotheses About Certainty Equivalents and Joint Receipt of Gambles
Younghee Cho, R. Duncan Luce

MBS 94-15
The Anthropic Principle in Psychology and Human Choice
Vladimir A. Lefebvre

MBS 94-16
Structural Analysis of Subjective Categorical Data
Karl Christoph Klauer, William H. Batchelder

MBS 94-17
Scaling Semantic Domains
A. Kimball Romney, William H. Batchelder, Tim Brazill

MBS 94-18
A Comparison of Methods for Collecting Judged Similarities Among Items in a Semantic Domain
Timothy J. Brazill, A. Kimball Romney, William H. Batchelder

MBS 94-19
An equivalence Relation Between Correspondence Analysis and Classical Metric Multidimensional Scaling for the Recovery of Euclidean Distances
J. Douglas Carroll, Ece Kumbasar, A. Kimball Romney

MBS 94-20
Choosing Subsets: Size-Independent Random Utility Models and the Quest for a Social Welfare Ordering
Michel Regenwetter, Bernard Grofman

MBS 94-21
Convention As Correlated Equilibrium
Peter Vanderschraaf

MBS 94-22
Evolution of an Anomaly
Brian Skyrms

MBS 94-23
Incorporating Joint Beliefs in Conflictual Coordination Games
Peter Vanderschraaf, Diana Richards

MBS 94-24
Well-graded Families of Relations
Jean-Paul Doignon, Jean-Claude Falmagne

MBS 94-25
Stochastic Evolution of Rationality
Jean-Claude Falmagne, Jean-Paul Doignon

MBS 94-26
A Random Utility Model of Subset Choices: New Theory and Applications
Michel Regenwetter

MBS 94-27
Salience of Visual Parts
Donald D. Hoffman, Manish Singh

MBS 94-28
A Formal Approach to Color Constancy: The Recovery of Surface and Light Source Spectral Properties Using Bilinear Models
Michael D'Zmura, Geoffrey Iverson

MBS 94-29
The Law of Supply in Games Markets and Matching Models
Greg Engl, Suzanne Scotchmer

MBS 94-30
Premature Sampling in Random Walks
Jeffrey N. Rouder

MBS 94-31
Theoretical Note: Postscripts to SLP
Jean-Claude Falmagne


1995

MBS 95-01
A Note on Deriving Rank-Dependent Utility Using Additive Joint Receipt
R. Duncan Luce, Peter Fishburn

MBS 95-02
The Ongoing Dialog Between Empirical Science and Measurement Theory
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 95-03
Conditions Equivalent to Unit Representations of Ordered Relational Structures
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 95-04
Weibull Form in Memory, Reaction Time, and Social Behavior: Asymptotic Distribution of Minima from Heterogeneous Population
Tarow Indow

MBS 95-05
Comments on Mathematical and Logical Aspects of a Model of Knowledge Acquisition Behavior
Josh Stern, K. Lakshminarayanan

MBS 95-06
Synchronizing Markets, Mutual Information, and the Price Level: Coordination in a Non-General Equilibrium World
Art DeVany

MBS 95-07
A Stochastic Model for the Evolution of Preferences
J.-Cl. Falmagne, Michel Regenwetter, B. Grofman

MBS 95-08
Multinomial Models for Measuring Storage and Retrieval Processes in Paired Associate Learning
Jeffrey N. Rouder, William H. Batchelder

MBS 95-09
Discrete Replicator Dynamics for the Ultimatum Game
William Harms

MBS 95-10
Episodic Theory of the Dynamics of Spatial Attention
George Sperling, Erich Weichselgartner

MBS 95-11
Is There Feature-Based Attentional Selection in Visual Search?
George Sperling

MBS 95-12
The Functional Architecture of Human Visual Motion Perception
Zhong-Lin Lu, George Sperling

MBS 95-13
The Wake-Sleep Algorithm for Unsupervised Neural Networks
Vladimir A. Lefebvre

MBS 95-14
Consensus Analysis of Three-Way Social Network Data
William Batchelder, Ece Kumbasar, John P. Boyd

MBS 95-15
Politics With and Without Policy
Michele R. Garfinkel, Amihai Glazer

MBS 95-16
The Electoral Politics of Extreme Policies
Amihai Glazer, Mark Gradstein, Kai A. Konrad

MBS 95-17
Can Expected Value Models Provide an Adequate Solution to the Joint-Level Motor Equivalence Problem?
Rebecca A. States, Charles E. Wright

MBS 95-18
Knowledge Space Assessment via the Web
Nicolas Thiéry, Eric Cosyn, Damien Lauly, Lo-Jen Hsu, Jean-Claude Falmagne

MBS 95-19
Attention-Generated Apparent Motion
Zhong-Lin Lu, George Sperling

MBS 95-20
Linear and Quadratic Stochastic Models of Income Distribution
François Bavaud

MBS 95-21
Context Dependent Utilities
François Bavaud

MBS 95-22
Models for Spatial Weights; a Systematic Look
François Bavaud

MBS 95-23
Three Mechanisms of Human Visual Motion Detection
Zhong-Lin Lu, George Sperling

MBS 95-24
Second-Order Illusions: Mach Bands, Chevreul, and Craik-O'Brien-Cornsweet
Zhong-Lin Lu, George Sperling

MBS 95-25
Contrast Saturation in First-and Second-Order Motion Perception
Zhong-Lin Lu, George Sperling

MBS 95-26
A Test of Interval Independence vs. Configural Weighting Using Judgments of Strength of Preference
Michael H. Birnbaum, Laura A. Thompson, David J. Bean

MBS 95-27
Violations of Branch Independence in Judgment of Value of Gambles
Michael H. Birnbaum, Darin Beeghley

MBS 95-28
Violations of Branch Independence in Choices Between Gambles
Michael H. Birnbaum, William Ross McIntosh

MBS 95-29
Toward an Analytical Model of Attention to Visual Space
David LaBerge, Robert Carlson, John Williams

MBS 95-30
A Stochastic Model of Preference Change and its Application to 1992 Presidential Election Data
Michel Regenwetter, Jean-Claude Falmagne, Bernard Grofman

MBS 95-31
Retrieval Sequences and retention Curves: an analysis Based on Extreme Statistics
Tarow Indow


1996

MBS 96-01
The Existence of Second-Order Reversed Phi: A Prediction from a Theory of Motion Perception
Zhong-Lin Lu, George Sperling

MBS 96-02
When Four Distinct Ways to Measure Utility are the Same
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 96-03
Visual Search: Models and Model Testing
Barbara Anne Dosher

MBS 96-04
Stochastic Token Theory
Jean-Claude Falmagne

MBS 96-05
Solutions to Three Functional Equations Arising from Different Ways of Measuring Utility
János Aczél, R. Duncan Luce, Gy. Maksa

MBS 96-06
Hyperbolic Representation of Global Structure of Visual Space
Tarow Indow

MBS 96-07
A Hybrid Latent Trait and Latent Class Model of Learning - theoretical Details and Empirical Application
K. Lakshminarayan

MBS 96-08
Culture as Shared Cognitive Representation
A. Kimball Romney, John P. Boyd, Carmella C. Moore, William H. Batchelder, Timothy J. Brazill

MBS 96-09
Strategic Contributions to Induce Private Provision of a Public Good
Amihai Glazer, Kai A. Konrad

MBS 96-10
Associative Joint Receipts
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 96-11
Relations, residuals, regular interiors, and relative regular equivalence
John P. Boyd, Martin G. Everett

MBS 96-12
Towards a Theory of Culture as Shared Cognitive Structures
A. Kimball Romney, Carmella C. Moore

MBS 96-13
Assessing the Roles of Change Discrimination and Accumulation: Evidence for a Hybrid Race Model of Perceptual Decision Making in Luminance Discrimination
Jeffrey N. Rouder

MBS 96-14
Selectively Searching for Conjunctively-Defined Visual Targets
Charles E. Wright, April M. Main

MBS 96-15
Independence Rejection: An Unsupervised Learning Algorithm for Extracting Latent Source Structures from Arbitrary Image Populations
Zhong-Lin Lu, Charles Chubb, George Sperling

MBS 96-16
The Generalized Area Theorem in Signal Detection Theory
Geoffrey Iverson, Donald Bamber

MBS 96-17
Bootstrap Confidence Bands for Shrinkage Estimators
Camilla Kazimi, David Brownstone

MBS 96-18
The Goal of theory in Experimental Psychology
George Sperling

MBS 96-19
Multinomial Processing Tree Models of Factorial Categorization
William H. Batchelder, Court S. Crowther

MBS 96-20
A Multinomial Modeling Analysis of Memory Deficits in Alzheimer's and Vascular Dementia
William H. Batchelder, Jamie-Chosak Reiter, W. Rodman Shankle, Malcolm B. Dick

MBS 96-21
Will the "Real" Data Please Stand Up? Reply to Welsch (1996)
Carmella C. Moore, A. Kimball Romney

MBS 96-22
Unsupervised Learning with Statistical Certification
Charles Chubb, Zhong-Lin Lu, George Sperling

MBS 96-23
Insecure Property and the Stability of Exchange
Stergios Skaperdas, Constantinos Syropoulos

MBS 96-24
Harmonic Ratios in the Spectrum of SS433
Vladimir A. Lefebvre

MBS 96-25
Investigating Processing Dependencies in Speech Perception with General Processing Tree Models
Court S. Crowther, William H. Batchelder

MBS 96-26
Independence of Feature Decisions in Speech Perception
Court S.
Crowther, Susan Nittrouer, William H. Batchelder

MBS 96-27
Configural Processing in Memory Retrieval: Multiple Cues and Ensemble Representations and Ensemble Representations
Barbara Anne Dosher, Glenda Rosedale

MBS 96-28
Lawful Variation of the Exponent in the 'Near-Miss-to-Weber's Law'
J.-Cl. Falmagne, C. Southworth, B. G. Berg, M. L. Morrison

MBS 96-29
A Practical Procedure to Build a Knowledge Structure
Eric Cosyn, Nicolas Thiéry

MBS 96-30
Correspondence Analysis as a Multidimensional Scaling Technique for Non-Frequency Similarity Matrices
A. Kimball Romney, Carmella A. Moore, Timothy J. Brazill

MBS 96-31
The Social Contract Naturalized
Brian Skyrms

MBS 96-32
Bayesian Subjunctive Conditionals for Games and Decisions
Brian Skyrms

MBS 96-33
Cuts for Parsing Visual Shapes
M. Singh, G. Seyranian, D. Hoffman


1997

MBS 97-01
The Role of Decision Analysis in Forming INFORMS
L. Robin Keller, Craig W. Kirkwood

MBS 97-02
Global Structure of Visual Space as a United Entity
Tarow Indow

MBS 97-03
Cuts for parsing visual shapes: 2. Experiments
Gregory A. Seyranian, Manish Singh, Donald D. Hoffman

MBS 97-04
On the Interplay of Riskless and Risky Utility
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 97-05
Constructing and Representing Visual Objects
Manish Singh, Donald D. Hoffman

MBS 97-06
Cultural Universals: Measuring the Semantic Structure of Emotion Terms in English and Japanese
A. Kimball Romney, Carmella C. Moore, Craig D. Rusch

MBS 97-07
Open Transmission and Spot Markets for Power: Models of Power and Transmission Pricing on the Western Network
Arthur S. De Vany

MBS 97-08
Directed Convergence in Stable Percept Acquisition
Bruce M. Bennett, Rachel Cohen

MBS 97-09
Coalescing, Event Commutativity, and Theories of Utility
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 97-10
Perception and Evolution
Bruce M. Bennett, Donald D. Hoffman, Chetan Prakash

MBS 97-11
Output Loss or Rehearsal Loop? Output time vs Pronunciation Time Limits in Immediate Recall for Forgetting-Matched Materials
Barbara Anne Dosher, Jian Jiang Ma

MBS 97-12
The Market for Protection and the Origin of the State
Kai A. Konrad, Stergios Skaperdas

MBS 97_13
Subjunctive Conditionals and Revealed Preference
Brian Skyrms

MBS 97-14
Observation and Inference
Bruce M. Bennett, Donald D. Hoffman, Paresh Murthy

MBS 97-15
Part Boundaries Alter the Perception of Transparency
Manish Singh, Donald D. Hoffman

MBS 97-16
External Noise Distinguishes Attention Mechanisms
Zhong Lin Lu, Barbara Dosher

MBS 97-17
Theoretical and Empirical Review of Multinomial Process Tree Modeling
William H. Batchelder, David M. Riefer

MBS 97-18
Cultural consensus
A Kimball Romney, Carmella Moore

MBS 97-19
A Comparison of Forgetting in an Implicit and Explicit Memory Task
Dawn McBride, Barbara Anne Dosher


1998

MBS 98-01
Developmental Patterns in the Cytoarchitecture of the Human Cerebral Cortex from Birth to Six Years Examined by Correspondence analysis
William R. Shankle, A. Kimball Romney, Benjamin H. Landing, Junko Hara

MBS 98-02
Predictions Based on Munsell Notation. I. Perception Color Differences
Tarow Indow

MBS 98-03
Predictions Based on Munsell Notation. II Principal Hue Components
Tarow Indow

MBS 98-04
Completing Visual Contours: The Relationship Between Relatability and Minimizing Inflections
Manish Singh, Donald D. Hoffman

MBS 98-05
Mathematical Psychology
William H. Batchelder

MBS 98-06
Complementarity in Contests
Stergios Skaperdas, Constantinos Syropoulos

MBS 98-07
Consistency of Monomial and Difference Representations of Function Arising from Empirical Phenomena
János Aczél, Jean-Claude Falmagne

MBS 98-08
Binary Gambles of a Gain and a Loss: An Understudied Domain
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 98-09
Multinomial Processing Tree Models and Psychological assessment
William H. Batchelder

MBS 98-10
Chinese and americans Agree on what's Fair, but Disagree on What's Best in Societal Decisions Affecting Health and Safety Risks
Wen-Qiang Bian, Robin Keller

MBS 98-11
L¥ Metric Criteria for Convergence in Bayesian Recursive Inference Systems
Bruce M. Bennett, Rachel B. Cohen

MBS 98-12
Constructing Surfaces and Contours in Displays of Color from Motion
Cali Fidiopiastis, Donald d. Hoffman, William Prophet, Manish Singh

MBS 98-13
Contours from Apparent Motion: A Computational Theory
William Prophet, Donald D. Hoffman, Carol M. Cicerone

MBS 98-14
Are Social Equivalences Ever Regular? Permutation and Exact Tests
John P. Boyd, Kai J. Jonas

MBS 98-15
Possible Analogs of Cognitive Processes in the Patterns of X-Ray Variability of the Rapid Burster
Vladimir A. Lefebvre

MBS 98-16
Contour completion and relative depth: Petter's rule and supportive ration
Manish Singh, Donald D. Hoffman

MBS 98-17
Compatibility of gain control and power representations--a János Aczél connection
Jean-Claude Falmagne

MBS 98-18
Comment on Prelec's (1998) "The Probability Weighting Function"
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 98-19
Principal Hue Curves and Color Difference
Tarow Indow

MBS 98-20
Book Review: Contemporary Mathematical Psychology--"Choice, Decision, and Measurement: Essays in Honor of R. Duncan Luce," A. A. J. Marley (Ed.)
William H. Batchelder

MBS 98-21
A Tune-Up Model of Regulation
Amihai Glazer

MBS 98-22
Credibility May Require Discretion, Not Rules
Tyler Cohen, Amihai Glazer

MBS 98-23
Sequential Rent Seeking
Amihai Glazer, Refael Hassin

MBS 98-24
Taxation of Rent-Seeking Activities
Amihai Glazer, Kai A. Konrad

MBS 98-25
Inducing Search by Periodic Advertising
Amihai Glazer, Refael Hassin

MBS 98-26
Sketch of Reflexive Game Theory
Vladimir Lefebvre

MBS 98-27
A Simple Axiomatization of Binary Rank-Dependent Expected Utility of Gains and Losses
A. A. J. Marley, Duncan Luce

MBS 98-28
Hyers-Ulan stability of functional equations with a square-symmetric operation
Asolt Pales, Peter Volkmann, R. Duncan Luce

MBS 98-29
Characterizing Human Perceptual Inefficiencies with Equivalent Internal Noise
Zhong-Lin Lu, Barbara Anne Dosher

MBS 98-30
Political Biases Against Public Investment and Growth
Ami Glazer, Mark Gradstein

MBS 98-31
Compatibility of Gain-Control and Power Law Representations--a János Aczél Connection
Jean-Claude Falmagne, Anders Lundberg

MBS 98-32
Patterns of Fairness Judgments in North America and the People's Republic of China
Wen-Qiang Bian, L. Robin Keller


1999

MBS 99-01
Media Theory
Jean-Claude Falmagne, Sergei Ovchinnikov

MBS 99-02
Forgetting in Conscious and automatic Memory: A Process Dissociation Study
Dawn M. Mcbride, Barbara Anne Dosher

MBS 99-03
Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning
Barbara Anne Dosher, Dawn M. McBride

MBS 99-04
Multinomial Processing Tree Models of Cognition
William H. Batchelder

MBS 99-05
Separable and Additive Representations of Binary Gambles of Gains
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 99-06
Semigroup and Chromatic Number of a U-Closed Family
Jean-Claude Falmagne

MBS 99-07
The (Spatial) Evolution of the Equal Split
Brian skyrms

MBS 99-08
The Mechanism of Isoluminant Chromatic Motion Perception
Zhong-Lin Lu, Luis A. Lesmes, George Sperling

MBS 99-09
Empirical Comparisons of Bilinear and Non-linear Utility Theories
Robert Sneddon, R. Duncan Luce

MBS 99-10
A Century of Human Information Processing Theory: Vision, Attention, and Memory
Barbara Dosher, George Sperling

MBS 99-11
A Systems Analysis of Visual Motion Perception
George Sperling, Zhong-Lin Lu

MBS 99-12
Stability and Explanatory Significance of Some Simple Evolutionary Models
Brian Skyrms

MBS 99-13
The Irony of Measurement by Subjective Estimations
Louis Narens

MBS 99-14
Categorization, Operant Matching, and Moral Choice: An Attempt to Use a Model o$ Inner Domain
Vladimir Lefebvre

MBS 99-15
A Meaningful Justification for the Representational Theory of Measurement
Louis Narens

MBS 99-16
Valuing Environmental Orucomes: Preferences for Constant or Improving Sequences
Jeffrey L. Guyse, L. Robin Keller, Thomas Eppel

MBS 99-17
A Mathematical theory of Belief
Louis Narens

MBS 99-18
A Common Framework for Describing Most Aggregation Procedures in Decision Making
Thierry Marchant

MBS 99-19
Decision Problem Structuring: Generating Possible Events
L. Robin Keller, Jeffrey L. Guyse

MBS 99-20
Information Cascades in Multi-Agent Models
Arthur De Vany, Cassey Lee

MBS 99-21
On Elements of Chance
R. Duncan Luce, A.A.J. Marley

MBS 99-22
Attention Mechanisms for Multi-Location First- and Second-order Motion Perception
Zhong-Lin Lu, Christine Qi Liu, Barbara Anne Dosher

MBS 99-23
Noise Exclusion in Spatial Attention
Barbara Anne Dosher, Zhong-Lin Lu

MBS 99-24
How Many Decisions Has the Supreme Court? Analysis of Supreme Court Decisions of the 1953-1991 Terms
Bernard Grofman, Timothy J. Brazill

MBS 99-25
Two Articles for the Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Jean-Claude Falmagne

MBS 99-26
Examining Predictive Accuracy Among Discounting Models
L. Robin Keller, Stefania Za


2000

MBS 00-01
On the Psychophysics of the Generalized Pieron's Law
Yung Fong Hsu

MBS 00-02
On Measuring the Minimum Detection Time: A Simple Reaction Time Study in the time Estimation Paradigm
Yung Fong Hsu

MBS 00-03
Convolution of Gambles and Ranked Weighted Utilities
A.A.J. Marley, R. Duncan Luce

MBS 00-04
Awareness, Consciousness, and Visual Space
Tarow Indow

MBS 00-05
Functional Equations in the Behavioral Sciences
János Aczél, Jean-Claude Falmagne, R. Duncan Luce

MBS 00-06
The Relexive Approach: Mathematical Modeling of Individuals with Images of Themselves and Others
Vladimir Lefebvre

MBS 00-07
Mechanisms of Perceptual Attention in Precuing of Location
Barbara Anne Dosher, Zhong-Lin Lu

MBS 00-08
Spatial Attention: Different Mechanisms for Central and Peripheral Temporal Precues?
Zhong-Lin Lu, Barbara Anne Dosher

MBS 00-09
A Theory of Psychophysical Proportions, Joint Presentations, and Matches: The Symmetric Case
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 00-10
Technical Note on the Joint Receipt of Quantities of a Single Good
Thierry Marchant, R. Duncan Luce

MBS 00-11
The Dynamics of Brightness Induction in Heterogeneous Displays
Daniel Bindman, Charles Chubb

MBS 00-12
Mangers' Variance Investigation Decisions: An Experimental Examination of Probabilistic And Outcome Ambiguity
Joanna L. Y. Ho, L. Robin Keller, Pamela Kelyka

MBS 00-13
Effects of Outcome and Probabilistic Ambiguity on Mangerial Choices
Joanna L. Y. Ho, L. Robin Keller, Pamela Kelyka

MBS 00-14
Theoretical Note: Recasting (the Near-Miss to) Weber's Law
Christopher W. Doble, Jean-Claude Falmagne, Bruce G. Berg

MBS 00-15
Coevolution of Signaling and Bargaining Under Replicator Dynamics
Brian Skyrms

MBS 00-16
Word and Part
Antonio M. Rodriguez, Manish Singh, Colleen M. Nilson, Donald D. Hoffman

MBS 00-17
Extending Cultural Consensus Theory to Comparisons Among Cultures
William H. Batchelder, A. Kimball Romney

MBS 00-18
Some Surprising Properties of Power Indices
Donald G. Saari, Katri K. Sieberg

MBS 00-19
Suppose You Want to Vote Strategically?
Donald G. Saari

MBS 00-20
Adopting a Plurality Vote Perspective
Donald G. Saari

MBS 00-21
Measuring and Modeling the Trajectory of Visual Spatial Attention
Shui-I Shih, George Sperling

MBS 00-22
Two Computational Models of Attention
George Sperling, Adam Reeves, Erik Blaser, Zhong-Lin Lu, Erich Weichselgartner

MBS 00-23
Potential Set Theory
Louis Narens

MBS 00-24
The Advantages of Ideological Cohesion: A Model of Constituency Representation and Electoral Competition in Multi-Party Democracies
A.J. McGann

MBS 00-25
How an Ideologically Concentrated Minority Can Trump a Dispersed Majority: Non-Median Voter Results For Plurality, Run-off and Sequential Elimination Elections
A. J. McGann

MBS 00-26
Finding and Testing Regular Equivalence
John P. Boyd

MBS 00-27
The Sum of the Parts Can Violate the Whole
Donald G. Saari, Katri K. Sieberg

MBS 00-28
Representational Measurement Theory
R. Duncan Luce, Patrick Suppes


 

2001

MBS 01-01
Markov Chain Estimations Method for Test Theory Without an Answer Key
George Karabatsos, William Batchelder

MBS 01-02
Sensitive Calibration and Measurement Procedures Based on the Amplification Principle in Motion Perception
Zhong-Lin Lu, George Sperling

MBS 01-03
Almost Connected Orders
Christopher W. Doble, Jean-Paul Doignon, Jean-Claude Falmagne, Peter C. Fishburn

MBS 01-04
Discrete State Models of Information Processing
William Batchelder

MBS 01-05
Functional Equations Arising in a theory of Non-Commutative Joint Receipt
János Aczél, R. Duncan Luce, C. T. Ng

MBS 01-06
Characterizing the Spatial-Frequency Sensitivity of Perceptual Templates
Zhong-Lin Lu, Barbara Anne Dosher

MBS 01-07
The Three Systems Theory of Human Visual Motion Perception: Review And Update
Zhong-Lin Lu, George Sperling

MBS 01-08
Cognitive Psychometrics: Assessing Storage and Retrieval Deficits in Special Populations with Multinomial Processing Tree Models
David M. Riefer, Bethany R. Knapp, William H. Batcheler, Donald Bamber, Victor Manifold

MBS 01-09
Private Judges and Uncorrelated Errors in an Iterated Prisoner's Delemma
Douglas E. Hill

MBS 01-10
An Examination of Risk and Ambiguity Aversion in Decisions Made by Dyads
L. Robin Keller, Rakesh K. Sarin, Jayavel Sounderpandian

MBS 01-11
Functional Characterization of Basic Properties of Utility Representations
Che Tat Ng, R. Duncan Luce, Janos Aczel

MBS 01-12
Signals, Evolution and the Explanatory Power of Transient Information
Brian Skyrms

MBS 01-13
Metric Criteria For Directed Convergence
J. Strasser McIntosh, Bruce Bennett

MBS 01-14
Representing Parametric Order Constraints in Mulit-trial Application sof Multinomial Processing Tree Models
Bethany R. Knapp, William H. Batchelder

MBS 01-15
A Note on Symmetric Matching of Joint Presentations
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 01-16
Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma Games With Dynamic Payoff Matrices
Masaki Tomochi, Mitsuo Kono



2002

MBS 02-01
Munsell reflectance spectra represented in three dimensional Euclidean space.
A. Kimball Romney and Tarow Indow

MBS 02-02
Brightness Assimilation in Bullseye Displays
Daniel Bindman, Charles Chubb

MBS 02-03
Stereomotion is processed by the third-order motion system: reply to comment
Zhong-Lin Lu, George Sperling

MBS 02-04
On Invariance Properties of Empirical Law
Chris Doble

MBS 02-05
Theoretical Note: Bounds on Variance of Estimatorsfor Multinomial Processing Tree Models
Pierre Baldi, William H. Batchelder

MBS 02-06
Functional measurement, meaningful scientific laws, and the size-weight illusion
Jean-Claude Falmagne

MBS 02-07
A Model for the simultaneous analysis of reflectance spectra and basis factors of Munsell color
samples under D65 illumination in three-dimensional Euclidean space
A. Kimball Romney* and Tarow Indow

MBS 02-08
Algorithms for Media
David Eppstein, Jean-Claude Falmagne

MBS 02-09
Increasing Increment Generalizations Of Rank-Dependent Theories
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 02-10
Measuring Sensory Memory. MEG Habituation and Psycholysis
Zhong-Lin Lu and George Sperling

MBS 02-11
Semantic Spaces based on free Association that Predict memory Performance
Mark Steyvers, Richard Shiffrin and Douglas L. Nelson

MBS 02-12
Empirical Evaluation of Theories for Buying and Selling Prices of Binary Gambles
Michael M. Birnbaum, Sherry Yeary, R. Duncan Luce, and Li Zhao

MBS 02-13
Predictability of Large-scale Spatially Embedded Networks
Carter T. Butts



2003

MBS 03-01
Empirical Evaluation of a Model of Global Psychophysical Judgments
Ragnar Steingrimsson, R. Duncan Luce

MBS 03-02
Sequential Sampling in Choice RT Models
Scott Brown, Andrew Heathcote

MBS 03-03
Two Invariance Principles for Scientific Laws
Jean-Claude Falmagne

MBS 03-04
Structural Change and Homeostasis in Organizations: A Decision-Theoretic Approach
Carter T Butts and Kathleen M. Carley

MBS 03-05
Latent Algebraic Structure in American Religious Belief, 1988-1998
Carter T. Butts and Christin Hilgeman

MBS 03-06
Additive Utility Representations of Gambles: Old, New, and Needed Results
R. Duncan Luce and A.A.J. Marley

MBS 03-07
Introductory Chapter, To the 3rd Edition of Algebra of Conscience
Vladimir A. Lefebvre

MBS 03-08
The Assessment of Knowledge in Theory and in Practice
Jean-Claude Falmagne, Jean-Paul Doignon, Eric Cosyn, Nicolas Thiéry

MBS 03-09
Valuing Sequences of Lives Lost or Saved Over Time: Evidence of Gain/Loss Asymnetry
Jeffrey L. Guyse
L. Robin Keller

MBS 03-10
From Prediction to Reflexive Control
X.H. Kramer, T.B. Kaiser, S.E. Schmidt, J. E. Davidson, V.A. Lafebvre

MBS 03-11
Mentalism and Behaviorism: Merging?
Vladimir A. Lefebvre

MBS 03-12
Geometry of Chaotic and Stable Discussions
Donald G. Saari

MBS 03-13
Consequences of Reversing Preferences
Donald G. Saari and Steven Barney

MBS 03-14
Are Part Wise Comparisons Reliable?
Donald G. Saari and Katri K. Sieberg



2004

MBS 04-01
Additive Utility Representations of Gambles: Old and New Axiomatizations
R. Duncan Luce and A.A.J. Marley
 
MBS 04-02
Evaluating a Model of Global Psychophysical Judgments:
I. Behavioral Properties of Summations and Productions
Ragnar Steingrimsson and R. Duncan Luce

MBS 04-03
Evaluating a Model of Global Psychophysical Judgments:
II. Behavioral Properties of Linking Summations and Productions
Ragnar Steingrimsson and R. Duncan Luce

MBS 04-04
A New Foundation for Support Theory
Louis Narens

MBS 04-05
Nagative Externalities and Sen's Liberalism Theorem
Donald G. Saari

MBS 04-06

Bipolarity, Choice, and Entropy
Vladimir A. Lefebvre

MBS 04-07
Equal Protection Implies Proportional Representation
Eliora van der Hout and Anthony McGann

MBS 04-08
Bayesian Inference from Continuously Arriving Informant Reports, with Application to Crisis Response
Carter T. Butts and Fabio Leite

MBS 04-09
Exact Bounds for Degree Centralization
Carter T. Butts

MBS 04-10
The Profile Structure for Luce's Choice Axiom
Donald G. Saari

MBS 04-11
Family Policy, Women's Employment, and Below-Replacement Fertility in developed Countries: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach
Christin Hilgeman and Carter T. Butts

MBS 04-12
An affirmative answer to John Locke's question of colour scrambling
Donald D. Hoffman and Ann K. Carruthers

MBS 04-13
Computing Core/Periphery Structures and Permutation Tests for Social Relations Data
John P. Boyd, William J. Fitzgerald and Robert J. Beck

MBS 04-14
Independence Properties Vis-à-vis Several Utility Representations
A.A.J. Marley, and R. Duncan Luce

MBS 04-15
Measurement Analogies: Comparisons of Behavioral and Physical Measures*
R. Duncan Luce

MBS 04-16
Symmetry, Direct Measurement, and Torgerson's Conjecture
Louis Narens



2005

MBS 05-01
The Profile Structure for Luce's Choice Axiom
Donald G. Saari

MBS 05-02
Permutation Models for Relational Data
Carter T. Butts

MBS 05-03
Emergent Coordination in the World Trade Center Disaster
Miruna Petrescu-Prahova and Carter T. Butts

MBS 05-04
Radio Communication Networks in the World Trade Center Disaster
Carter T. Butts and Miruna Petrescu-Prahova

MBS 05-05
Patterns of Matching and Systems with Internality
Vladimir A. Lefebvre

MBS 05-06
Sen's Theorem: Geometric Proof and New Interpretations
Lingfang (Ivy) Li and Donald G. Saari

MBS 05-07
On the utility of Gambling: Extending the approach of Meginniss (1976)
C.T. Ng, R. Duncan Luce, A.A.J. Marley

MBS 05-08
Building Inferentially Tractable Models of Complex Social Systems: a Generalized Location Framework
Carter T. Butts

MBS 05-09
Dynamics of Conformist Bias
Brian Skyrms

MBS 05-10
Modeling lateral geniculate nucleus cell response spectra and Munsell reflectance spectra with cone sensitivity curves
A. Kimbell Romney and Roy G.D'Andrade

MBS 05-11
Learning to Network
Brian Skyrms and Robin Pemantle

MBS 05-12
A Study of Hearing Aid Gain Functions Based on a Nonlinear Nonlocal Feedforward Cochlea Model
Yongsam Kim, Jack Xin, and Yingyong Qi



2006

MBS 06-01
From Decision Problems to Dethroned Dictators
Jason Kronewetter and Donald G. Saari

MBS 06-02
A Multiple Objective Decision Analysis Involving Health and Safety Risks: Potassium Iodide Distribution in Nuclear Incidents
Tianjum Feng and L. Robin Keller

MBS 06-03
Empirical Evaluation of a Model of Global Psychophysical Judgments
IV. Forms for the Weighting Function
Regnar Steingrimsson and R. Duncan Luce

MBS 06-04
Finessing a point; augmenting the core
Donald Saari and Garrett R. Asay

MBS 06-05
Cycle Census Statistics for Exponential Random Graph Models*
Carter T. Butts

MBS 06-06
A Relational Event Model for Social Action, with Application to the World Trade Center Disaster
Carter T. Butts

MBS 06-07
Dynamics of Network Formation Processes in the Co-Author Model
Laurent Tambayong

MBS 06-08
Mediatic Graphs*
Jean-Claude Falmagne and Sergei Ovchinnikov

MBS 06-09
Numerical Simulations of the Lewis Signaling Game: Learning Strategies, Pooling Equilibria, and the Evolution of Grammar
Jeffrey A. Barrett

MBS 06-10
Reputation, Trust, and Rebates: How Online Auction Markets Can Improve Their Feedback Mechanisms
Lingfang Ivy Li



2007

MBS 07-01
Evolutionary Dynamics of Lewis Signaling Games: Signaling Systems vs. Partial Pooling  
Simon Huttegger, Brian Skyrms, Rory Smead, Kevin Zollman

MBS 07-02
Bayesian Analysis of Recognition Memory: The Case of the List-Length Effect
Simon Dennis, Michael D. Lee, Angela Kinnell

MBS 07-03
Oscillatory dynamics of city-size distributions in world historical Systems
Douglas. R. White, Laurent Tambayong and Natasa Kejzar

MBS 07-04
City-system dynamics in world history studied by change in city-size distributions
Douglas. R. White, Laurent Tambayong and Natasa Kejzar

MBS 07-05
Symmetry of Nonparametric Statistical Tests on Three Samples
Anna E. Bargagliotti and Donald G. Saari

MBS 07-06
Condorcet Domains; A Geometric Perspective
Donald G. Saari

MBS 07-07
Population Heterogeneity and Color Stimulus Heterogeneity in Agent-based Color Categorization.
Natalia L. Komarova and  Kimberly A. Jameson



2008

MBS 08-01

Persuasion as a Contest
Stergios Skaperdas and Samarth Vaidya

MBS 08-02
Expertise and Complexity in the Social and Engineering Sciences: An Extended Sen's Theorem
Donald G. Saari

MBS 08-03
Dynamics of Human Behavior
Douglas R. White



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