Quantum cultural change.

Darı́o Gil, Joseph S. Broz, Irfan A. Siddiqi

J. Manuel, John W. Murphy

Jean Bricmont

Marcus W. Doherty

Editors' note: as mentioned in the Introduction, this chapter was written in 2020, and global events since then may have overtaken some aspects.As the pace of technological and cultural change has continued to accelerate, the editors have opted to present this text as drafted to minimise further delays in publication.2

Taiki Takahashi

Recent advances in cultural psychology elucidated a number of cultural differences in diverse psychological characteristics and behaviors from perceptions, and economic decisions to religiosity. Also, quantum models of cognition and decision making have been developed to mathematically characterize perceptions, and human judgement and decision making. This study proposes cultural quantum modelling approaches to cultural psychology and neuroscience, by utilizing the mathematical model of quantum cognition and decisions in psychology, economics, and decision science. This approach may help better quantitatively rigorous understandings of cultural differences between Westerners and Easterners, Catholics and Protestants, and other cross-cultural variations in psychological and behavioral characteristics and normative principles of rationality.