Bulgaria, Jamel: Empirical and Computational Validation of the Core Emotion Framework: A Multi-Disciplinary Institutional Integration Strategy

The scientific evolution of affective science has long been constrained by a persistent polarity between biological-nativist theories, which posit hardwired, universal emotional categories, and constructionist paradigms, which frame emotions as emergent, cognitively categorized states driven by prior experience and interoceptive allostasis. The Core Emotion Framework (CEF), developed by Jamel Bulgaria, represents an ambitious structural-constructivist attempt to reconcile this historical divide.