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and a motive to hide or withdraw.", "scope_statement": "This model owns shame as a situated experience of exposure, diminished worth or unacceptable selfhood under an actual, anticipated or internalised evaluation, including its interpretation, course and action implications.", "in_scope": [ "Reported shame episodes and explicitly uncertain interpretations of possible shame", "The aspect of self felt to be exposed, deficient or unacceptable", "The standards and actual, imagined or internalised audiences involved", "Experienced intensity, recurrence and effects on participation or disclosure", "Shame-related action urges, enacted responses and desired support" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Guilt about a particular action and the independent question of responsibility", "Embarrassment about an awkward exposure without an established threat to self-worth", "Humiliation, ridicule or exclusion as actions performed by others", "Stigma, discrimination and social norms as wider social arrangements", "Clinical diagnoses, treatment plans and general self-esteem", "Whether an alleged wrongdoing occurred and what restitution is owed" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Ask whether the person's account concerns being unacceptable or diminished as a person, rather than only judging a particular action as wrong; record mixed shame and guilt when both are present.", "Distinguish awkward visibility from threatened worth or belonging: embarrassment alone does not establish shame.", "Separate degrading treatment from the person's experience: humiliation can be recorded without assuming the recipient feels shame or accepts the degrading judgment.", "Check whether anticipated exposure concerns negative evaluation of the self; fear of punishment or material loss alone does not establish shame.", "Distinguish an episode tied to a situation from an enduring negative self-view, while allowing the person to report both." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Experience attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "self-described shame | tentatively interpreted | attributed by another | disputed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from treating silence, withdrawal or another person's accusation as proof of shame." }, { "name": "Target of negative evaluation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "whole self | particular identity or role | body or visibility | competence | conduct interpreted as revealing the self | other | unclear; multiple allowed", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what the person feels is at stake without endorsing the evaluation." }, { "name": "Evaluative audience", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to actual observers, anticipated observers, an internalised evaluator or an unspecified audience", "why_it_matters": "Separates witnessed exposure from feared discovery and private self-evaluation." }, { "name": "Standard relationship", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "person endorses | person rejects | person partly endorses | person feels conflicted | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Feeling shame does not establish agreement with the standard that evokes it." }, { "name": "Reported intensity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Person-selected verbal scale or explicitly anchored numeric scale, recorded with time; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison within the person's account without implying a universal shame threshold." }, { "name": "Temporal pattern", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "anticipated | currently experienced | subsiding | recalled | recurring | unclear", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes fear of future exposure from an active or remembered experience." }, { "name": "Perceived belonging at stake", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to relationships, groups or roles the person believes may reject or devalue them, with that belief's stated basis", "why_it_matters": "Makes feared social consequences explicit while separating them from confirmed exclusion." }, { "name": "Response trajectory", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Record separately: reported urge, intended action, enacted action and observed consequence; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an urge to hide, defend or repair from being mistaken for an action already taken." } ], "affordances": [ "Invite the person to confirm, reject or rename a tentative interpretation of shame.", "Map the felt self-judgment to its audience and standard without validating the judgment as true.", "Track the person's reported intensity, recurrence and participation effects over time.", "Distinguish requests for privacy from avoidance the person wants help changing.", "Offer consent-based choices such as pausing, changing audience, seeking support or discussing a specific repair.", "Support accountability for a stated action without equating that action with the person's overall worth." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "apa-dict-shame", "title": "shame", "url": "https://dictionary.apa.org/shame", "what_it_supports": "Specialist definition: unpleasant self-conscious emotion from a sense of dishonorable or indecorous conduct or circumstances, typically with withdrawal and sometimes defensive anger; links to depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and low self-esteem.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "tangney-annurev-2007", "title": "Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3083636/", "what_it_supports": "Lewis/Tangney self-versus-behavior distinction from guilt; phenomenology of shrinking, exposure, and powerlessness; TOSCA as the main scenario measure of shame-proneness.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q152282", "title": "shame (Q152282)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152282", "what_it_supports": "Canonical identifiers: Wikidata Q152282, MeSH D012752, NCI Thesaurus C73431, Dewey 152.4.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "braithwaite-csar", "title": "Crime, Shame and Reintegration", "url": "https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/crime-shame-and-reintegration", "what_it_supports": "Reintegrative versus stigmatizing (disintegrative) shaming as a real-world use of shame in crime control and restorative justice.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "recognising-shame", "name": "Recognising shame", "description": "Establish whether shame is the person's description or a tentative interpretation, and what makes that interpretation specific.", "rationale": "An agent needs grounds for recognition that do not reduce shame to visible behaviour or a label imposed by others.", "layers": [ { "id": "experience-and-attribution", "name": "Experience and attribution", "description": "Separate the person's account from an observer's interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-shame-attribution", "name": "Basis for shame attribution", "description": "Record who names the experience as shame, their words and whether the person accepts that description.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the person call this shame, use a different expression, or reject the label?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-shame-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts of the account come from the person, and which are interpretations by an observer or agent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-for-shame-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "self-evaluation-boundaries", "name": "Self-evaluation boundaries", "description": "Locate the threatened aspect of self and distinguish neighbouring experiences without forcing exclusivity.", "findings": [ { "id": "meaning-of-being-exposed", "name": "Meaning of being exposed", "description": "Record what exposure or discovery is understood to reveal about the person, including overlap with guilt, embarrassment or fear.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the person feel this situation says about who they are or whether they belong?", "kind": "definition", "id": "meaning-of-being-exposed-q01" }, { "text": "What supports recognising shame alongside, or instead of, regret about conduct, awkwardness or fear of consequences?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "meaning-of-being-exposed-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "audiences-and-standards", "name": "Audiences and standards", "description": "Represent whose evaluation matters and which standards make the self feel unacceptable.", "rationale": "The model must distinguish the person's experience from the truth, legitimacy or actual occurrence of the evaluation.", "layers": [ { "id": "exposure-and-audience", "name": "Exposure and audience", "description": "Identify actual visibility, anticipated discovery and evaluation experienced without an external observer.", "findings": [ { "id": "actual-and-imagined-witnesses", "name": "Actual and imagined witnesses", "description": "Record who knows what, who is feared to discover it and which audience is present only in the person's account.", "questions": [ { "text": "Whose actual, anticipated or internalised judgment matters in this experience?", "kind": "definition", "id": "actual-and-imagined-witnesses-q01" }, { "text": "What establishes that an audience witnessed or judged anything, and what remains anticipated or unknown?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "actual-and-imagined-witnesses-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-identification", "name": "Standards and identification", "description": "Describe the operative standard and the person's relationship to it.", "findings": [ { "id": "felt-failure-against-a-standard", "name": "Felt failure against a standard", "description": "Record the expectation associated with shame and whether the person endorses, contests or feels divided about it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which expectation about worth, acceptability, competence, body, identity or conduct is implicated, and who is understood to hold it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "felt-failure-against-a-standard-q01" }, { "text": "Does the person regard that expectation as legitimate, imposed, discriminatory, conflicting or unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "felt-failure-against-a-standard-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-course-and-consequences", "name": "Episode course and consequences", "description": "Describe how shame develops in this instance and what the person reports it changes.", "rationale": "An agent needs to judge the current situation without inferring severity from display or treating recurrence as a diagnosis.", "layers": [ { "id": "activation-and-course", "name": "Activation and course", "description": "Track the reported precipitating situation, intensity and temporal pattern.", "findings": [ { "id": "shame-episode-trajectory", "name": "Shame episode trajectory", "description": "Record when shame is anticipated, active, remembered or recurring, together with the person's account of changes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What event, memory, comparison or anticipated discovery does the person associate with the onset or return of shame?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "shame-episode-trajectory-q01" }, { "text": "How intense is the experience on the person's chosen scale, and how has it changed over the stated interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "shame-episode-trajectory-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "urges-and-participation", "name": "Urges and participation", "description": "Separate felt urges from actions and establish effects on engagement with others or necessary tasks.", "findings": [ { "id": "concealment-and-response-effects", "name": "Concealment and response effects", "description": "Record any reported urge to hide, withdraw, defend, appease, disclose or repair, and the consequences of actions actually taken.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the person feel urged to do, and which responses have they actually enacted?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "concealment-and-response-effects-q01" }, { "text": "Which effects on speaking, seeking help, relationships or responsibilities does the person attribute to shame, and what supports that attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "concealment-and-response-effects-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dignity-and-response", "name": "Dignity and response", "description": "Determine what assistance is wanted and how to respond without compounding unwanted exposure or global self-condemnation.", "rationale": "Recognising shame must inform respectful action while leaving privacy, disclosure and responsibility as distinct decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "control-over-exposure", "name": "Control over exposure", "description": "Establish preferences and constraints concerning attention, records and disclosure.", "findings": [ { "id": "consent-for-shame-related-information", "name": "Consent for shame-related information", "description": "Record what the person wants acknowledged, retained or shared and with whom, including uncertainty about the agent's role.", "questions": [ { "text": "What may the agent ask about, record or share concerning this experience, and with which audience?", "kind": "action", "id": "consent-for-shame-related-information-q01" }, { "text": "Would the proposed response introduce an audience or expose information the person has not agreed to disclose?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "consent-for-shame-related-information-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "support-and-accountability", "name": "Support and accountability", "description": "Connect the person's desired support to concrete options while keeping alleged wrongdoing separate from self-worth.", "findings": [ { "id": "chosen-next-step", "name": "Chosen next step", "description": "Record whether the person wants acknowledgment, privacy, help examining a judgment, support with a relationship or action addressing a specific harm.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which next step does the person want, and what can the agent appropriately do to support it?", "kind": "action", "id": "chosen-next-step-q01" }, { "text": "If repair is proposed, what specific action or harm 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no single agreed clinical cut-off", "unit": "mean Likert rating (commonly 1-5)" }, { "quantity": "onset of evaluative self-conscious shame", "typical_range": "after self-recognition (~15-24 months) and internalization of standards, typically in the third year of life", "unit": "months of age" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of shame this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Shame-rage or humiliated fury: pain at the self is redirected as hostility toward others.", "Concealment, withdrawal, and delayed help-seeking, which maintain symptoms and stigma.", "Stigmatizing (disintegrative) shaming can increase crime and out-grouping rather than repair.", "Unacknowledged or bypassed shame, converted into blame or anger instead of reparation.", "Elevated risk for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and low self-esteem when shame is chronic or global." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of shame this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Honor-shame versus guilt-innocence versus fear-power cultural frames: Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, East Asian, and Balkan settings often regulate via reputation and ostracism rather than inner guilt.", "Ruth Benedict's Japan-as-shame / United States-as-guilt contrast is widely cited and also widely treated as oversimplified.", "Some languages (e.g. Gidjingali) do not lexically split shame from fear.", "German everyday usage names vicarious shame as Fremdscham; Italian speakers have been reported to distinguish shame from guilt more sharply than American speakers." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of shame this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "guilt", "difference": "Guilt negatively evaluates a specific behaviour (I did a bad thing) and tends toward reparation; shame negatively evaluates the global self (I am bad) and tends toward hiding." }, { "name": "embarrassment", "difference": "Embarrassment is typically milder, sudden, and tied to a public social gaffe or convention breach; shame is a more 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evidence would justify recording enduring shame patterns separately from episodes without duplicating models of self-concept or clinical conditions?", "How should collective or vicarious shame be represented when the person has neither acted nor been individually exposed?", "Which person-reported measures and response practices are supported across contexts, and what limits apply to their use by an AI agent?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 15, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a shame, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise reported or possible shame, assess its context and effects without presuming inner experience, and choose responses that preserve dignity and agency.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Avoidance Shame Spiral, period shame, climate shame, prudery, shame of flying.", "5 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 98 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a shame, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a shame is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a shame, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a shame, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a shame is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a shame sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a shame, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a shame, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a shame is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a shame from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a shame, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a shame, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a shame is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a shame passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a shame between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a shame, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a shame, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a shame is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a shame, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a shame is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a shame, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a shame, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a shame is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a shame proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a shame, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a shame and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a shame, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a shame, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a shame is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a shame consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a shame takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a shame, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a shame, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a shame is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What shame is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of shame are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is shame operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of shame and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of shame?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as shame?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a shame came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a shame and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a shame, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a shame, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a shame is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a shame is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a shame, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a shame, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a shame is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }