cognitive-dissonance

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A repository for the dataset collected from annotating tweets for within-person dissonance.

A pluggable agent skill that turns a conflict between an agent's own committed position and new information into an auditable, reproducible event, then routes it to an explicit response strategy.

A theoretical synthesis introducing epistemic psychology—a framework uniting cognition, ethics, and relational science. Based on the Kahl Model of Epistemic Dissonance (KMED-R), it reconceptualises knowing as fiduciary care and introduces FBT, TACM, and the Intimate Epistemic Oath as tools for diagnosing trust and dependence.

This paper reframes the newborn’s first cry as the primordial epistemic claim—the embodied registration of contradiction and dependence at life’s threshold. Drawing on developmental research, attachment theory, and KMED-I simulations, it shows how caregiver responses form fiduciary scaffolds shaping autonomy, resilience, and trust.

KMED-I models the newborn’s cry as the first epistemic event, simulating caregiver responses—fiduciary, inconsistent, neglectful, or silencing—and their impact on autonomy, dissonance tolerance, and dependence. A computational tool for developmental psychology, psychiatry, and epistemic theory.

The Entropy Engine — Ψ = (α·P·Ω)·D(Σ). Dual Protocol: Hard (Gemini) + Consensus (Grok/ChatGPT/Claude). Four-AI peer reviewed across 15 versions.

Epistemic Psychology re-founds psychology as the science of human autonomy and dependence under epistemic conditions. Moving from pathology to ontology, and from description to prescription, it integrates dissonance, clientelism, and fiduciary scaffolds into a diagnostic and normative research programme.

position bias in LLM judges is worse than people think: ask a small instruct model to choose 1 of 2 items. 81% of the answer will be based on which slot the item was in, not which it was. swap the order and the answer flips 78% of the time. an inconclusive cognitive dissonance experiment

This paper reinterprets cognitive dissonance as structural to epistemic life. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, and fiduciary law, it shows how collapse yields illusory freedom, while fiduciary scaffolds enable bounded freedom, epistemic resilience, and institutional pluralism.

Comprehensive evaluation of Claude 4 Sonnet's mathematical assessment capabilities: 500 original problems revealing JSON-induced errors and systematic patterns in LLM evaluation tasks. Research demonstrates 100% accuracy on incorrect answers but 84.3% on correct ones due to premature decision-making in JSON structure.

A groundbreaking study in fiduciary-epistemic theory that reimagines the modern university as a constitutional guardian of knowledge. It exposes how marketisation and managerialism erode truth, compares universities to hybrid AI firms, and proposes legal reform to restore candour, accountability, and public trust in knowledge.

This paper reconceptualises Nazi camp guards as epistemic subjects shaped by systemic betrayal, integrating classical psychology with Kahl’s Epistemic Clientelism Theory and fiduciary–epistemic duties. It redefines atrocity as epistemic failure and authority as fiduciary trusteeship, proposing safeguards for pluralism and atrocity prevention.

Analysis of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests through Epistemic Clientelism Theory, showing how scaffold collapse produced epistemic capture and democratic lessons.

Experimental Psychology Paradigm

THE UNIFIED STAR FRAMEWORK · THE Σ STAR ENGINE EVALUATOR | Ψ = P · α · Ω / (1 + Σ)ᵏ | V24 | CC BY-SA 4.0

A philosophical and fiduciary analysis expanding on Joel Suss’s Financial Times “Free Lunch” column (26 Oct 2025). This paper argues that America’s polarised economy reflects a fiduciary collapse of trust across political, corporate, and civic systems, proposing epistemic humility as a framework for renewal.

A landmark interdisciplinary study that redefines cognitive dissonance and trust as foundations of knowing. Not a psychology paper but a theory-of-knowledge manifesto in psychological form—bridging mind, ethics, and governance.

Applied case study extending Peter Kahl’s Authoritarianism and the Architecture of Obedience. Examines the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! under Trump’s second term as an instance of authoritarian epistemic capture. Reframes obedience as epistemic submission and explores fiduciary–epistemic scaffolds for resistance.