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RSCH_02 [ THE_RESEARCH_AGENDA ]

Built like a university hospital.

We're built like a university hospital: the commercial lab earns at market rates and funds the nonprofit side, which runs the public-good research.

[ FIELD_NOTE ]The field is behavioral infrastructure. The method is applied mechanism design: the economics discipline of Hurwicz, Maskin and Myerson. They are not the same thing, and we do not collapse them.

Behavioral Infrastructure Applied Mechanism Design Causal Inference Computational Social Science
FLAGSHIP_PROGRAM

The Pretend Era™

The lab's flagship research program is a falsifiable framework diagnosing institutional trust collapse as a pluralistic-ignorance equilibrium: a condition in which most people privately reject the official story but comply with it, believing everyone else accepts it. The framework specifies measurable signatures and the conditions under which it would be wrong. Everything else the lab builds is downstream of this diagnosis.

INDEX_STATUS

  • Papers Filed[08]
  • Published (AXL)[06]
  • In Revision[02]
  • Prior Peer-Reviewed[01]
[ NOTICE ] PAPERS ARE NAMED BEFORE THEY ARE LINKED. EACH PUBLISHES AS IT CLEARS ITS SOURCING PASS. SIX HAVE CLEARED. AXL-WP-04 AND AXL-WP-08 ARE WITHDRAWN FOR REVISION AND RETURN AS v2.0. CORRECTIONS ARE STATED IN PLACE.
PRIOR_PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed

Jin, M.X., Rajan, S., Gary Bicas, C.E., Hao, M., Dong, L., Mufson, B., & Hafiz, I. (2021). Novel Validated Index for the Measurement of Disinformation Susceptibility at the County Level. Cureus, 13(5). Known as the Jin-Hafiz Index. PMID 34211810

THE_WORKING_PAPER_INDEX // AXL-WP-01 … AXL-WP-08
AXL-WP-04
In Revision · v2.0 Forthcoming Flagship

The Pretend Era™

The v1.0 draft is withdrawn for revision; a v2.0 with additional case material supersedes it. Request an advance copy.

AXL-WP-08
In Revision · v2.0 Forthcoming

Cognitive Infrastructure for the AI Transition

The v1.0 draft is withdrawn for revision pending a sourcing pass; a v2.0 supersedes it. Request an advance copy.

INDEX CURRENT · SIX PUBLISHED · TWO IN REVISION · AXL-WP-01 … AXL-WP-08

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The data is open and the firewall is written down. Conflicts disclosed before you ask.