Social science goes quantum: explaining human decision-making, cognitive biases and Darwinian selection from a quantum perspective

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The social and economic sciences are grounded on the basic assumption that social life, decision-making behavior, and consciousness are classical physical and therefore material phenomena. Quantum social science, a new research area, which refers to the knowledge and interpretations of quantum physics, is challenging this assumption. This paper gives an overview of quantum social science and explains quantum decision theory on the one hand with a focus on the cognitive biases first elaborated by Kahneman & Tversky, and on the other hand by Darwin´s theory of evolution.

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Holtfort, T., & Horsch, A. (2023). Social science goes quantum: explaining human decision-making, cognitive biases and Darwinian selection from a quantum perspective. Journal of Bioeconomics, 25(2), 99–116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-023-09334-w

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