AUTHOR=Haven Emmanuel E. TITLE=Two types of potential functions and their use in the modeling of information: two applications from the social sciences JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=6 YEAR=2015 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01513 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01513 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=

In this paper we consider how two types of potential functions, the real and quantum potential can be shown to be of use in a social science context. The real potential function is a key ingredient in the Hamiltonian framework used in both classical and quantum mechanics. The quantum potential however emerges in a different way in quantum mechanics. In this paper we consider both potentials and we attempt to give them a social science interpretation within the setting of two applications.