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I would go with Physics.
Physicists study the world using mathematics, while mathematicians study mathematics itself which is a construct that does not necessarily exist in the real world (Albert Einstein once said: "as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."). ...
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Humans actually exhibit both slow and fast learning and they have somewhat different properties. One distinction is between "declarative" memory (for example, facts like "tigers have stripes" or "Paris is the capital of France") and "procedural" learning (such as perceptuo-motor skills like riding a bike or playing a musical instrument). Declarative memory ...
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The probability of conjunctive events (all six tosses are heads) are overestimated, relative to a single event of similar overall probability.
This result has been shown by Paul Slovic, in an experiment that is described in its abstract as follows:
This study examined the effects on the attractiveness of a gamble, of manipulating the number and ...
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I believe these questions are dealt with by "support theory," the seminal publications being:
Tversky, A., & Koehler, D. J. (1994). Support theory: A nonextensional representation of subjective probability. Psychological Review, 101(4), 547-566.
Rottenstreich, Y., & Tversky, A. (1997). Unpacking, repacking, and anchoring: advances in support ...
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Now that @ofri has presented a good argument for physics, I'll give a few arguments for the benefits of a course in maths, and particularly a math course that focuses heavily on statistics.
There are many areas of psychology where a good understanding of statistics is very helpful. Statistics is particularly useful in psychometrics, mathematical ...
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You are asking two different questions in your title and the text. I will answer the text question, explain why you are asking two different questions, and comment on the title question.
The human mind seems to have some sort of relational structure for how it works with ideas. This is usually study in the domain of memory via free recall. In a free recall ...
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Personality and individual differences research has a range of constructs that relate to what you are talking about:
conservatism or fear of uncertainty seems relevant
Low levels of openness to experience
You seem to describing a "type" of individual. However, a multidimensional continuous approach is probably a better model of individual differences. ...
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