Mathematical psychology

Dr. Elizabeth Loftus is a distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine.

Her undergrad training was in mathematics and psychology at UCLA, and she then got a PhD in mathematical psychology from Stanford.

As a psychologist, she's been doing research on the human mind, particularly with respect to human memory, for 40 years and has published hundreds of papers in prestigious scientific journals and countless other publications in non-peer-reviewed forms of journalism.

She's got over 20 books to her name.

I'm

actually fascinated by this.

It's just my own ignorance as a layperson, but this juxtaposition, I guess, or mathematical psychology, those two things are not often put together.

So how does that work?