Stage 1: Research Foundation with Ethical Framework

Behaviour Lab v1.0.0 - Stage 1 Release

🧠 What This Is

Evidence-based research on behavior engineering (priming, nudging, human-AI interaction) with a strong ethical framework built-in.

⚠️ ETHICAL USE ONLY

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 with mandatory ethical use requirements.

By using this work, you agree to use it ONLY for:

• Defensive awareness (recognizing manipulation)
• Ethical applications (education, therapy, research)
• Beneficial purposes with informed consent

Prohibited: Commercial manipulation, exploitation, dark patterns, coercion.

See LICENSE.md for full requirements.

📚 What's Included

Research (140 pages)

• Priming Foundation - Evidence-based priming with replication awareness
• Nudging Techniques Catalog - Complete evidence-tier classification
• Human vs. AI Agent Priming - Novel integration analysis

Governance (50 pages)

• Strong ethical framework
• Community guidelines
• Misuse reporting system
• Staged publication plan

Code

• Working priming analyzer prototype (Python)

🎯 Stage 1 of 3

This is Stage 1 (Research Foundation). Future stages:

• Stage 2 (Month 5-6): System design (after peer review)
• Stage 3 (Month 12+): Implementation details (gated access)

🙏 Community Review Welcome

This work underwent internal safety review. We welcome community feedback:

• Open a Discussion for questions or concerns
• See MISUSE_REPORTING.md to report violations
• See CONTRIBUTING.md to help strengthen ethics

📖 Key Documents

• README.md - Start here
• LICENSE.md - Ethical use requirements
• CONTRIBUTING.md - How to participate ethically

Let's build ethical behavior engineering together. 🚀