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

The Affective Thermodynamic Relationship (ATR)

Status: Under Review

This study formulates a thermodynamic view of affect, deriving a measurable Collapse Curve of Emotion that links interpretative load to affective degradation. It establishes a quantitative basis for how emotional energy transforms under strain.

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News & Highlights

🎓 Implementing Affective Sovereignty

We convert the right to interpret one’s own emotions into engineering constraints via a sovereign risk function, Sovereign-by-Design architecture, and proof-of-mechanism simulations (DRIFT + ASC).

Preprint · Overview

🌀 Algorithmic Affective Blunting (AAB) — Discover AI · Under Consideration (R2 submitted)

We introduce the Affective Degradation Index (ADI) and empirically demonstrate a collapse curve of interpretative failure under graded junk-persona exposure (Soft → Moderate → Extreme).

Preprint · ADI / Methods Dataset

🧩 Defensive Motivational Nodes (DefMoN) — Elsevier MLWA · Submitted (Transferred)

A theory-constrained generative framework operationalizing Vaillant’s defenses × Plutchik’s emotions, with DefMoN-Syn v1 (EN/KO/FR/KA, 300 utt.) and full reproducibility package.

Preprint · Newsroom

Research Programs

Ryan Research Institute develops three flagship programs that map distinct dimensions of affective sovereignty and human–AI interaction:

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

Decoding how defense mechanisms and affective motivations shape human expression.

Resonant Amplification Framework (RAF) — Human–AI Amplification & Circuit Breakers

Explaining how linguistic–affective loops escalate into digital distortions, and how to design cognitive circuit breakers.

Predictive Emotional Selfhood in Artificial Minds (PESAM) — Computational Selfhood

Modeling emotional selfhood as the synergy of affective precision, self-priors, and homeostasis in adaptive agents.

👉 Together, these programs form the foundation for ethical, human-centered AI design.

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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.

Music Archive

Contact & Institutional Affiliations

Email (General Inquiries): ryan@ryanresearch.org

ORCID (Research Registry): https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2751-496X

Affiliated Academic Networks:

EurAI — European Association for Artificial Intelligence

BCS — The Chartered Institute for IT (SGAI)

KAIA — Korean Artificial Intelligence Association

KASBA — Korean Academic Society of Business Administration

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