Can the decisions, personal ties and politics underlying society be understood mathematically? And do irrational choices make sense when viewed as uncertain, quantum like probabilities?

Andrei Khrennikov and Emmanuel Haven discuss their research into the quantum formalism behind political movements, financial markets, and personal relations.

Read more:

• Quantum-like modeling: cognition, decision making, and rationality (2020) : https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-020-00240-6
• Quantum Mechanical Pragmatic Rules and Social Science (2019): https://doi.org/10.1007/s41470-019-00036-1  
• Introduction to quantum probability theory and its economic applications (2018): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2018.08.004
• Statistical and subjective interpretations of probability in quantum-like models of cognition and decision making  (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2016.02.005 
• ‘Social Laser’: action  amplification by stimulated emission of social energy (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0094
• An Application of the Theory of Open Quantum Systems to Model the Dynamics of Party Governance in the US Political System (2013): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-013-1931-6  

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