Jamel Bulgaria
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description: Co-author and developer of the Core Emotion Framework (CEF), responsible for its ontology, architecture, and canonical integrity.
job title: Co-author of the Core Emotion Framework

Core Emotion Framework
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description: The Core Emotion Framework is a structurally defined emotional operating system organized around three centers (Head, Heart, Gut) and ten functional operators, designed to enable precise emotional reasoning, intervention, and alignment across contexts.
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creator: Jamel Bulgaria
author: Jamel Bulgaria
language: en
about: Head Center
about: Heart Center
about: Gut Center
about: Core Emotion Framework Operators
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OptimizeYourCapabilities.com
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description: Primary home of the Core Emotion Framework and related work.
publisher: Jamel Bulgaria
language: en
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Core Emotion Framework Centers
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description: The three primary centers of the Core Emotion Framework: Head, Heart, and Gut.
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has defined term: Gut Center

Head Center
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description: The Head Center in the Core Emotion Framework, responsible for cognitive, interpretive, and meaning-making processes that govern how experiences are framed and understood.
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Heart Center
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description: The Heart Center in the Core Emotion Framework, responsible for relational, affective, and value-oriented processes that govern connection, care, and emotional resonance.
in defined term set: Core Emotion Framework Centers

Gut Center
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description: The Gut Center in the Core Emotion Framework, responsible for action, boundary, and instinctive processes that govern commitment, protection, and forward movement.
in defined term set: Core Emotion Framework Centers

Core Emotion Framework Operators
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description: The ten functional operators of the Core Emotion Framework, each representing a specific, actionable emotional process organized across Head, Heart, and Gut centers.
has defined term: Sensing
has defined term: Calculating
has defined term: Deciding
has defined term: Expanding
has defined term: Constricting
has defined term: Achieving
has defined term: Arranging
has defined term: Appreciating
has defined term: Boosting
has defined term: Accepting

Sensing
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description: The outgoing Head-center capacity to sense and obtain raw data or stimuli.
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is part of: Head Center

Calculating
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description: The reflecting cognitive tool to analyze and calculate possibilities and outcome.
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is part of: Head Center

Deciding
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description: The balanced summary of the sensed and calculated viewpoint.
in defined term set: Core Emotion Framework Operators
is part of: Head Center

Expanding
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description: An outgoing Heart-centered operator that expands with warmth and inclusion.
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is part of: Heart Center

Constricting
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description: A reflecting Heart-centered operator that contracts and constricts to maintain boundary, precision and limitation.
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is part of: Heart Center

Achieving
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description: A balancing Heart-centered operator that juggle between contradicting forces in order to perform nicely and achieve excellence.
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is part of: Heart Center

Arranging
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description: An outgoing Gut-centered operator that differentiate and manage time, roles and hierarchy.
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is part of: Gut Center

Appreciating
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description: A reflecting Gut-centered operator that celebrate and enjoy the existing without need to rearrange.
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is part of: Gut Center

Boosting
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description: A Gut-centered operator 'on' mode balancer that connects, sustains, administers and boosts.
in defined term set: Core Emotion Framework Operators
is part of: Gut Center

Accepting
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description: A Gut-centered 'off' mode balancer or cross-center operator that surrender, follows and manifest rather than act.
in defined term set: Core Emotion Framework Operators
is part of: Gut Center

OptimizeYourCapabilities.pro
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description: Deep research and scholarly material for the Core Emotion Framework.
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language: en
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CoreEmotionFramework.com
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description: A dedicated entry point and explainer site for the Core Emotion Framework.
publisher: Jamel Bulgaria
language: en
about: Core Emotion Framework

CEFmirror.com
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description: A tooling and interaction layer that makes the Core Emotion Framework practically usable for every person.
publisher: Jamel Bulgaria
language: en
about: Core Emotion Framework

The CEF Method
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description: The primary practitioner manual describing the application of the Core Emotion Framework across coaching, counseling, and performance contexts.
author: Jamel Bulgaria
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INTIMA: Evaluating Emotional Boundary Integrity in AI Systems
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description: A benchmark and conceptual framework, aligned with the Core Emotion Framework, for evaluating how AI systems handle emotional boundaries, intimacy signals, and parasocial risk.
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