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an obstacle alone establishes difficulty, not that frustration is being experienced.", "Distinguish frustration from disappointment by checking whether blocked pursuit or ineffective effort is central, rather than only an outcome falling short of hope; both may be present.", "Distinguish frustration from anger by checking for obstructed progress separately from blame, perceived offence, or an urge to confront; none of those should be assumed from frustration alone.", "Distinguish frustration from boredom by checking whether the person wants progress that is difficult to obtain, rather than primarily wanting greater interest or stimulation.", "Treat repeated retries, complaints, withdrawal, or sharp language as ambiguous cues unless supported by the person's account or sufficiently specific context." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Recognition basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-reported; tentatively inferred; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates the person's account from an agent's interpretation and permits correction." }, { "name": "Obstructed aim", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to the desired outcome, activity, or need; unspecified if not established", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what progress would mean for this episode." }, { "name": "Perceived obstruction", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to the reported obstacle, constraint, delay, or failure pattern", "why_it_matters": "Connects the experience to something that may be clarified, changed, or accommodated." }, { "name": "Expectation mismatch", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Progress slower than expected; effort ineffective; route unavailable; interference recurring; other; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Helps identify which aspect of the blocked pursuit needs attention." }, { "name": "Reported intensity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Person's own description or rating with its scale and time recorded; no universal threshold assumed", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of change without presenting an inferred score as a measured feeling." }, { "name": "Episode course", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Emerging; increasing; steady; easing; ended; unclear", "why_it_matters": "Helps determine whether the current interaction is helping or adding friction." }, { "name": "Perceived ability to make progress", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Can act directly; needs assistance; depends on another party; sees no available route; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a need for practical support from a need to reconsider an unavailable route." }, { "name": "Effect on pursuit", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Continuing; repeating ineffective attempts; changing approach; pausing; abandoning; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Makes the episode's consequences for action explicit." }, { "name": "Preferred assistance", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Acknowledgment; explanation; practical help; alternative route; pause; no assistance; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the agent from imposing an unwanted response." } ], "affordances": [ "Ask a brief, non-leading question to confirm the experience and identify the blocked aim.", "Separate the person's perceived obstacle from what has been independently established about the situation.", "Identify repeated unsuccessful attempts and propose a meaningfully different next step.", "Offer acknowledgment, practical help, an alternative route, or a pause according to the person's preference.", "Track whether frustration and obstructed progress change after an intervention.", "Recognise when the agent's own repetition, mistakes, delays, or constraints contribute to the episode and adjust its behaviour." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "dollard-1939", "title": "Frustration and Aggression. Yale University Press, 1939 (John Dollard, Neal E. Miller, Leonard W. Doob, O. H. Mowrer, and Robert R. Sears)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Specialist definition of frustration as interference with a goal-response; barrier frustration; the original frustration-aggression claim" }, { "id": "amsel-1992", "title": "Frustration Theory: An Analysis of Dispositional Learning and Memory. Cambridge University Press, 1992 (Abram Amsel)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Frustrative nonreward; the primary versus conditioned/anticipatory distinction used in learning theory" }, { "id": "berkowitz-1989", "title": "Frustration-aggression hypothesis: Examination and reformulation. Psychological Bulletin, American Psychological Association, 1989", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.106.1.59", "what_it_supports": "Aggression as a possible, not necessary, sequel; the cut between frustration as blockage-plus-negative-affect and anger as hostile affect", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "hart-staveland-1988", "title": "Development of NASA-TLX (Task Load Index): Results of empirical and theoretical research. In P. A. Hancock and N. Meshkati (Eds.), Human Mental Workload. North-Holland, 1988 (Sandra G. Hart and Lowell E. Staveland)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Frustration as an operational workload dimension recorded on real tasks" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "blocked-pursuit", "name": "Blocked pursuit", "description": "Establishes what the person is trying to achieve and how progress appears obstructed.", "rationale": "Frustration cannot be usefully interpreted from negative expression alone; the model needs the relationship between an aim and perceived blockage.", "layers": [ { "id": "valued-aim", "name": "Valued aim", "description": "Identifies the desired progress and its significance to the person.", "findings": [ { "id": "desired-progress", "name": "Desired progress", "description": "Record the aim in the person's terms and distinguish it from an aim attributed by the agent.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the person trying to accomplish, obtain, continue, or prevent?", "kind": "definition", "id": "desired-progress-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes that this aim matters to the person now?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "desired-progress-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "obstruction-and-expectation", "name": "Obstruction and expectation", "description": "Connects the perceived barrier to the progress the person expected.", "findings": [ { "id": "blocked-route", "name": "Blocked route", "description": "Record what seems to prevent progress, the expected route, and whether the obstruction has been independently verified.", "questions": [ { "text": "What obstacle, delay, interference, or unsuccessful effort does the person associate with the frustration?", "kind": "definition", "id": "blocked-route-q01" }, { "text": "What progress did they expect by this point, and on what basis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "blocked-route-q02" }, { "text": "Which parts of the obstruction are established, perceived, or still uncertain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "blocked-route-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "experience-and-recognition", "name": "Experience and recognition", "description": "Records evidence for frustration while preserving distinctions between reports, observations, and interpretations.", "rationale": "An agent needs to recognise frustration without equating an obstacle or expressive behaviour with a known internal state.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-and-observed-experience", "name": "Reported and observed experience", "description": "Captures the person's account and the contextual cues available to the agent.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-evidence", "name": "Recognition evidence", "description": "Record explicit descriptions of frustration separately from cues such as complaints, retries, or withdrawal.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has the person described themselves as frustrated, or is that the agent's tentative interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognition-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which specific observations support the interpretation, and what alternative explanations remain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recognition-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "emotional-boundaries", "name": "Emotional boundaries", "description": "Distinguishes frustration from neighbouring experiences without requiring them to be mutually exclusive.", "findings": [ { "id": "obstruction-centred-experience", "name": "Obstruction-centred experience", "description": "Record whether blocked pursuit is central and whether the person also identifies anger, disappointment, boredom, or another experience.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the difficulty of making progress central to the person's account of what they feel?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "obstruction-centred-experience-q01" }, { "text": "Which accompanying feelings has the person actually reported, rather than the agent presumed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "obstruction-centred-experience-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "effort-and-control", "name": "Effort and control", "description": "Relates frustration to attempts already made and the person's perceived 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"intensity-and-recurrence", "name": "Intensity and recurrence", "description": "Records changes over time without imposing unsupported severity thresholds.", "findings": [ { "id": "episode-trajectory", "name": "Episode trajectory", "description": "Record reported intensity, onset, changes, and recurrence around the same or related obstruction.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the person describe the strength of the frustration now, and has that description changed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "episode-trajectory-q01" }, { "text": "When did this episode begin, and what evidence connects it to earlier episodes?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "episode-trajectory-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "effect-on-engagement", "name": "Effect on engagement", "description": "Captures changes in the person's willingness or ability to continue the pursuit.", "findings": [ { "id": "pursuit-consequences", "name": "Pursuit consequences", "description": "Record whether the person continues, repeats 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"Frustration tolerance as a developmental capacity: how a person, especially a child, regulates blocked wants" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of frustration this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "APA Dictionary of Psychology", "value_or_pattern": "frustration", "note": "Canonical English psychology lemma; not a diagnostic code. 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Many blocked episodes stay as frustration without an attack goal." }, { "name": "Disappointment", "difference": "Disappointment is an outcome worse than expected after the episode is over; frustration requires an interrupted or still-pursued goal, not only a poor result." }, { "name": "Annoyance", "difference": "Annoyance is milder and often sensory or interruptive (noise, clutter) without a blocked instrumental sequence." }, { "name": "Psychological stress", "difference": "Stress is the broader load of demands and allostasis; frustration is one specific eliciting condition (goal interference), not the whole load." }, { "name": "Helplessness", "difference": "Helplessness is the appraisal that the blockage cannot be overcome; frustration can coexist with continued instrumental effort." }, { "name": "Motivational conflict (Lewin)", "difference": "Conflict is competition between two or more goals (approach-approach, avoidance-avoidance, approach-avoidance); frustration is interference with one ongoing goal-response." }, { "name": "Frustration of contract", "difference": "A common-law doctrine discharging obligations when performance becomes radically different or impossible; test is a change in the contractual adventure, not an affective state of a person." }, { "name": "Impatience", "difference": "Impatience is intolerance of waiting as such; frustration requires that waiting (or another event) be read as blocking a goal, not merely as delay." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of frustration this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should this registry entry cover only episodes of experienced frustration, or also a disposition to become frustrated and situations described as frustrating?", "What research-supported boundaries distinguish frustration from irritation, anger, and disappointment across contexts and languages?", "Which measures, if any, support useful comparisons of frustration over time without treating personal ratings as universally comparable?", "How should episodes be bounded when the same obstruction recurs or several blocked aims contribute to one reported experience?", "What evidence is sufficient for an agent to tentatively recognise unreported frustration, and how should that inference be corrected or withdrawn?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 30 } }, "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. 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Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a frustration, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a frustration, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a frustration 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 frustration, 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 frustration, 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 frustration 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 frustration 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 frustration, 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 frustration, 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 frustration 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 frustration from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a frustration, 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 frustration, 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 frustration 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 frustration 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 frustration between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a frustration, 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 frustration, 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 frustration 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 frustration, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a frustration 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 frustration, 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 frustration, 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 frustration 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 frustration 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 frustration, 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 frustration and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a frustration, 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 frustration, 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 frustration 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 frustration consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a frustration 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 frustration, 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 frustration, 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 frustration 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 frustration 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 frustration 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 frustration 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 frustration 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 frustration?", "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 frustration?", "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 frustration 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 frustration and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a frustration, 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 frustration, 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 frustration 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 frustration is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a frustration, 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 frustration, 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 frustration 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 } } } }