The mathematical principle of psychology: psychological causality

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Abstract

Establishing a general dynamic mechanism and psychological causality is a long-standing controversial problem. Functionalism, structuralism, behaviorism, humanism, symbolism, cognitivism, Gestalt psychology, psychodynamics, etc. put forward postulation from various aspects, and try to construct the local framework of human behavior prediction. However, the unity has never been achieved. In the past 10 years, we have proposed four mathematical formulas to deduce psychological mechanisms and classical experimental findings at the functional and behavioral level. In this paper, we promote it into axiom system and use them to reconstruct psychological local postulations in mathematics. Stimulation, cognition, psychological force and behavior are related. A long-term desire for the unified causality has been achieved in psychology. Therefore, like physics, the transformation from experimental psychological phenomenology to axiomatic theory will be a revolution.

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