Bulgaria, Jamel: The Structural Constructivist Status of the Core Emotion Framework: Boundary Conditions and the Circumplex Alternative

Affective science remains divided between discrete emotion theories and psychological constructionism, a century long conflict over whether emotions are biologically fixed categories or emergent conceptual events. The Core Emotion Framework (CEF) proposes a structural constructivist alternative: a 10 operator functional ontology organized within a 3×3+1 hub architecture. This paper evaluates whether Amano et al. (2026)—a study of short term test–retest reproducibility in AI derived facial valenc