Bulgaria, Jamel: The Structural-Constructivist Transformation: A Socio-Economic and Technical Evaluation of the Core Emotion Framework

This paper presents the Core Emotion Framework (CEF) as a structural constructivist resolution to the century long divide between discrete emotion theories and psychological constructionism. Rather than treating emotions as biological primitives or culturally contingent labels, the CEF models emotional life as a set of ten universal functional operators within a “Human Operating System.” These operators—Sensing, Calculating, Deciding, Expanding, Constricting, Achieving, Arranging, Appreciating,