Bulgaria, Jamel: Clinical Translation and Empirical Validation of the Core Emotion Framework: A Multi-Institutional Strategy for Structural-Constructivist Psychopathology

The Core Emotion Framework (CEF) is a structural constructivist model of human affect that proposes ten irreducible psychological operators distributed across a tripartite Head–Heart–Gut architecture. This paper outlines a comprehensive clinical translation strategy designed to empirically validate the CEF as a transdiagnostic model of emotional regulation and psychopathology. Drawing on contemporary process based, constructivist, and interoceptive research paradigms, the framework reconceptuali