True contextuality in a psychophysical experiment
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Publication:2332843
DOI10.1016/J.JMP.2019.04.006zbMATH Open1426.91194arXiv1812.00105OpenAlexW2963370997MaRDI QIDQ2332843FDOQ2332843
Authors: Víctor H. Cervantes, Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov 
Publication date: 5 November 2019
Published in: Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Recent crowdsourcing experiments have shown that true contextuality of the kind found in quantum mechanics can also be present in human behavior. In these experiments simple human choices were aggregated over large numbers of respondents, with each respondent dealing with a single context (set of questions asked). In this paper we present experimental evidence of contextuality in individual human behavior, in a psychophysical experiment with repeated presentations of visual stimuli in randomly varying contexts (arrangements of stimuli). The analysis is based on the Contextuality-by-Default (CbD) theory whose relevant aspects are reviewed in the paper. CbD allows one to detect contextuality in the presence of direct influences, i.e., when responses to the same stimuli have different distributions in different contexts. The experiment presented is also the first one in which contextuality is demonstrated for responses that are not dichotomous, with five options to choose among. CbD requires that random variables representing such responses be dichotomized before they are subjected to contextuality analysis. A theorem says that a system consisting of all possible dichotomizations of responses has to be contextual if these responses violate a certain condition, called nominal dominance. In our experiment nominal dominance was violated in all data sets, with very high statistical reliability established by bootstrapping.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00105
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