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Ryan SangBaek Kim, Ph.D.

Founder & Director, Ryan Research Institute

Affective Neuroscience · Cognitive Science & Philosophy · AI Ethics

Ryan Research Institute

Institute for Affective Sovereignty and Interdisciplinary Studies

The Ryan Research Institute (RRI) is an officially registered independent research institute in Paris, dedicated to advancing the emerging field of Affective Sovereignty Studies.

Our work integrates affective neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, and AI ethics, while building bridges into law, business studies, and the arts.

We explore the deep structures of emotion, cognition, freedom, and human identity, with a mission to develop new frameworks for the ethical design of human-centered technologies and societies.

At the core of our mission lies a conviction:

To understand the architecture of feeling is to redraw the map of what it means to be human

This website serves as the official archive of our peer-reviewed publications, books, musical works, and essays — and as an evolving hub for interdisciplinary research, international collaboration, and ethical policy dialogue.

🔎 Latest Research Highlight

NADI / ANEST — Four-Paper Program Completed & Submitted

Status: Under Review Across Four Major Journals

The full NADI–ANEST program — Dataset → Human Baseline → Mechanistic Theory → Geometry / State-Space Modeling —

has been fully completed and submitted across four top-tier venues:

  • Scientific Data (Dataset Paper)
  • Nature Human Behaviour (Human Baseline)
  • Psychological Review (ANEST Framework)
  • Nature Machine Intelligence (Geometry / Modeling)

Together, these papers establish the first integrated ecosystem for narrative–affect discrepancy, emotional regulation theory, and mechanistic modeling.

Dataset DOI →

Program DOIs Overview →

News & Highlights

📘 NADI / ANEST – Full Four-Paper Program Submitted

The entire program (351k dataset, human expressive baseline, ANEST theory, and geometry modeling)

is now in review across Scientific Data, Nature Human Behaviour, Psychological Review, and Nature Machine Intelligence.

Program Overview

🧪 The Affective Thermodynamic Relationship (ATR) — Submitted to Nature Communications

ATR establishes the Collapse Curve of Emotion and provides the first quantitative scaling law for normative–affective conflict.

Dataset and ADI measurement toolkit are publicly released.

Preprint · Dataset

🧩 DefMoN — Final Acceptance at Elsevier MLWA + Registry v3.0 Released

DefMoN now has a fully reproducible research registry:

accepted manuscript (v3.0), multilingual synthetic corpus, and linked dataset metadata.

Accepted Manuscript v3.0

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Research Programs

RRI now develops five flagship research lines, each representing a core dimension of affective sovereignty and human–AI cognition:

  • NADI–ANEST Program — Narrative–Affect Discrepancy & Emotional Self-Regulation

    • Four-paper ecosystem: Dataset → Human Baseline → ANEST Mechanistic Theory → Geometry / State-Space Modeling.

  • Defensive Motivational Nodes (DefMoN) — Language × Defense × Affect

    • Formal model for inferring defense mechanisms and affective motivations from linguistic structure.

  • Resonant Amplification Framework (RAF) — Human–AI Amplification & Circuit Breakers
  • Predictive Emotional Selfhood in Artificial Minds (PESAM) — Computational Selfhood & Affective Priors
  • Algorithmic Affective Blunting (AAB) — Collapse Curve of Interpretative Failure

    • Includes the Affective Degradation Index (ADI) and junk-persona causal testing.

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Books

📘 You Don’t Really Know Your Emotions

A neuroscience-based guide that reveals why your emotions are not what you think — and how to truly feel them.

📗 Feel First. Act Freely

How to trust your emotions again, stop overanalyzing, and restore your emotional rhythm through body and brain.

📙 Strategic Psychology for CEOs

A strategic psychology manual for CEOs integrating neuroscience and behavioral science.

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Music

400+ original compositions — from orchestral textures to contemporary minimalism.

🎵 New Album — "살아내는 중입니다" (2025)

A full-length emotional narrative across 11 tracks, distributed globally on all major platforms.

Music Archive

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