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PSYCHOLOGY, COGNITION & HUMAN SYSTEMS

Construct validity

Are the cognitive constructs (e.g., bias, system, heuristic) well-defined and distinct?

Mechanism clarity

Is a causal cognitive mechanism proposed, or merely a descriptive pattern?

Experimental design quality

Controls, randomization, task validity, demand effects.

Replicability

Do findings hold across replications, labs, populations, and time?

Effect size & practical significance

Are effects meaningful outside the lab?

Boundary conditions

When, for whom, and under what conditions do effects disappear or reverse?

Ecological validityition

What isDo lab tasks resemble real cognitive environments? inside vs outside the sustainability/resilience scope.

Population generalizability

Are results limited to WEIRD samples or broader populations?

Competing explanations

Have alternative cognitive or contextual explanations been ruled out?

Measurement integrity

Are proxies (reaction time, error rate, self-report) reliable and interpretable?

Temporal stability

Are effects stable over time or context-dependent?

Normative vs descriptive distinction

Does the work explain how people think or prescribe how they should think?

Translation risk

Likelihood of misapplication in policy, management, or self-help contexts.

Target behavior specificity

Is the behavior clearly defined, observable, and measurable?

Causal pathway clarity

How exactly the intervention is expected to change behavior.

Evidence hierarchy

Quality of evidence supporting effectiveness (field trials vs lab results).

Context dependence

Cultural, institutional, and situational factors affecting outcomes.

Effect size & durability

Magnitude of behavior change and persistence over time.

Spillover effects

Behavioral substitution, rebound effects, or crowding-out.

Heterogeneity of impact

Differential effects across populations and settings.

Ethical legitimacy

Consent, transparency, manipulation risk, autonomy preservation.

Incentive compatibility

Alignment with underlying motivations and constraints.

Scalability & implementation fidelity

Whether effects survive scale-up and operational variation.

Cost-effectiveness

Resources required per unit of behavior change.

Misuse & weaponization risk

Potential for coercive, discriminatory, or deceptive use.

Exit & reversibility

Ability to stop or reverse interventions without harm.

Unit of analysis clarity

Individual, dyad, team, department, or whole organization—explicitly defined.

Context specificity

Industry, size, lifecycle stage, regulatory reminders, crisis vs steady-state.

Power and authority dynamics

Formal hierarchy vs informal influence networks.

Incentive structures

How rewards, penalties, promotion, and status shape behavior.

Culture as practiced

Actual norms-in-use vs stated values.

Psychological safety claims

Conditions under which safety improves learning vs undermines accountability.

Group dynamics

Trust, conflict, cohesion, conformity, and dissent mechanisms.

Leadership behavior effects

How leader actions amplify or suppress behavior patterns.

Stress, workload, and burnout dynamics

Sustainable performance vs extraction.

Decision-making quality

Bias, groupthink, escalation, and dissent handling.

Change receptivity

How organizational psychology enables or resists change.

Performance linkage

Evidence connecting psychological constructs to outcomes.

Boundary conditions

Contexts where interventions backfire or lose effect.

Claim type clarity

Distinguish normative claims (“ought”) from descriptive claims (“is”), and from instrumental claims (“if you want X, do Y”).

Moral framework explicitness

What ethical theory or principles are being used (even if implicitly)?

Internal coherence

Are principles consistent, non-contradictory, and stable under variation?

Scope & moral jurisdiction

Who is included, excluded, and why (persons, stakeholders, future generations)?

Trade-off handling

How conflicts between values are adjudicated (rights vs welfare, fairness vs efficiency).

Edge cases & stress scenarios

Does reasoning hold under extreme or adversarial conditions?

Hidden assumptions

Background claims about human nature, agency, responsibility, harm, and fairness.

Action-guidance quality

Does the ethics provide usable guidance or only critique?

Proportionality & reasonableness

Are prescriptions realistically actionable without demanding moral heroism?

Misuse potential

How ethical language can be weaponized (shaming, coercion, selective enforcement).

Legitimacy of enforcement

If ethics is translated into rules, who enforces and with what safeguards?

Compatibility with pluralism

How the ethical stance coexists with disagreement in diverse societies/organizations.