Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Mathematical psychology
- Foundations of probability and probabilistic contextuality across sciences
- Theory of measurement and psychometrics
- Knowledge and learning spaces
Education
Ph.D. Mathematical and Computational Cognitive Science, Purdue Univeristy
Awards and Honors
J. William Fulbright Fellowship for doctoral studies, Fulbright Colombia (2014)
Recent Publications
- Cervantes, V. H. (2023). A note on the relation between the Contextual Fraction and CNT 2. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 112, 102726.
- Cervantes, V. H. & Dzhafarov, E. N. (2020). Contextuality analysis of impossible figures. Entropy, 22(9), 981.
- Dzhafarov, E. N., Kujala, J. V., & Cervantes, V. H. (2020). Contextuality and Noncontextuality Measures and Generalized Bell Inequalities for Cyclic Systems. Physical Review A, 101(4) 042119.
- Basieva, I., Cervantes, V. H., Dzhafarov, E. N., & Khrennikov, A. (2019). True Contextuality Beats Direct Influences in Human Decision Making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(11), 1925-1937.
- Cervantes, V. H. & Dzhafarov, E. N. (2019). True contextuality in a psychophysical experiment. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 91, 119-127.
- Cervantes, V. H. & Dzhafarov, E. N. (2018). Snow Queen is evil and beautiful: Experimental evidence for probabilistic contextuality in human choices. Decision, 5(3), 193-204.