A theory-driven candidate annotation architecture for collective regulation under stress in human-centered computational psychiatry: early modern Iberia as a worked coding demonstration

Computational psychiatry has advanced formal accounts of individual prediction, affect regulation, and maladaptive rigidity, but it still has fewer clinically interpretable tools for representing social and institutional processes under collective stress. This Hypothesis and Theory article proposes a theory-driven candidate annotation architecture for this purpose. It defines five collective-process variables—defensive closure (DEF-C), collective anxiety load (ANX-C), integrative progression (PR