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The book contains a unifying theory on how the common object space is metrically transformed by individuals with different transformation parameters, due to their other previous experiences, to individually different psychological spaces for judgment on the one hand and preference on the other hand. Individual experiences also change generally, whereby the psychological spaces also change generally for each individual. The theory, therefore, is a psychological relativity theory of perception, judgment, preference, and choice dynamics. Since the geometry of the physical object space is known, its theory-derived, metric psychological transformations determine also the geometry of respectively the sensation, judgmental response, and preferential valence spaces for geometrically grounded, multidimensional scaling analyses of judgmental or preferential data. Their dimensional scales exhibit, as by-product of the theory, the dimensional invariance of physical measurement, which enables the meaningful formulation of quantitative psychology theory. The theory validity is not only sustained by the unification of verified domain theories, but also by verified predictions and verifying results of differently re-analysed data from existing research. Moreover, new applications are presented and in detail verified for individual risk behaviour in road traffic, collective crash risks of motorised transport, and environmental risks of industrial production and motorised transport. The last application contains scenario predictions that show no destructive world developments, in contrast to the politically influential 'doom' scenarios for growth of industrial production and motorised transport. This book is a must for all behavioural, economic, and social scientists with theoretical interest and some understanding of multidimensional data analyses. It integrates more than twenty theories on perception, judgment, preference, and
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Matthijs J. Koornstra (1941) graduated in psychology at Leiden University, where he worked from 1961 to 1986. The first five years as research-assistant and the next five years as researcher at the Computer Centre and the Psychological Institute, subsequently from 1971 to 1978 as senior researcher at the Department of Data Theory of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, and from 1978 to 1986 as (crown-appointed) vice-president of Leiden University. In 1986 he was appointed as director of SWOV (Research Institute for Road Safety, The Netherlands) and after1999 as director of SARA (National Centre for Advanced Supercomputing and Networking, Amsterdam). Meanwhile he lectured road safety for 10 years at the Delft University of Technology and was or is president or member of governing boards for scientific foundations, academic visiting committees, and (inter)national scientific councils. Since 2002 he works independently as research advisor for international organisations (EU, ETSC, OECD, ECMT, WB, WHO, and WBCSD). He is co-editor or co-author of a few books on road safety and author or co-author of over 120 scientific articles or reports on data analysis methods, road safety, and diverse domains in applied and theoretical psychology, meanwhile obtaining his PhD at Leiden University.
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