Vladimir A. Lefebvre (1996) Extracting Information About Subjective States . Psycoloquy: 7(08) Human Choice (6)
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Psycoloquy 7(08): Extracting Information About Subjective States

EXTRACTING INFORMATION ABOUT SUBJECTIVE STATES
FROM A FUNCTION DESCRIBING HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Reply to Rapoport on Human-Choice

Vladimir A. Lefebvre
School of Social Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California

VALEFEBV@UCI.EDU

Abstract

Within the framework of a formal model of the subject (Lefebvre, 1995), mathematical analysis of a function representing the subject's behavior allows us to find another function corresponding to an "image of the self." In this way we successfully obtain information about the subject's inner domain without relying on introspective methods.

Keywords

choice; computation; decision theory; ethical cognition; mathematical psychology; model building; parameter estimation; probability; rationality.

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