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+# synthcognition — top-level type bank draft (v1)
+153 new cognitive-state types across 12 super-categories, joining the 16 synthpercept-v2 types (= 169 total) and 45 domains.
+## Memory & knowledge states (14)
+- **tip_of_tongue** — a wanted word or name felt as imminent yet blocked, carried by letter-fragment guesses, groping paraphrase, and deferred self-interrupting reference *[tip-of-the-tongue states (Brown & McNeill, 1966)]*
+- **deja_vu** — a first-time scene experienced as eerily pre-lived, carried by uncannily correct anticipation of specifics the speaker could not know *[déjà vu as familiarity misattribution (A. S. Brown, 2003)]*
+- **jamais_vu** — a deeply familiar thing abruptly turned alien and unownable, carried by repeated over-inspection of the ordinary and wrongness asserted of the unchanged *[jamais vu; semantic satiation (Moulin et al.)]*
+- **false_memory** — a vividly certain recollection the sentence itself exposes as impossible, carried by confident sensory detail colliding with a hard external anchor *[misinformation effect, false memory (Loftus)]*
+- **source_confusion** — a fact held firmly while its origin dissolves, carried by cycled incompatible attributions drifting across print, people, and podcasts *[source monitoring framework (Johnson, Hashtroudi, Lindsay, 1993)]*
+- **prospective_strain** — strain to remember a future obligation, carried by staged object cues, doubled alarms, and self-directed rehearsal rituals *[prospective memory (Einstein & McDaniel)]*
+- **flashbulb_recall** — one consequential long-past moment retained with photographic excess, carried by exact peripheral trivia like clock times, ties, and background smells *[flashbulb memory (Brown & Kulik, 1977)]*
+- **intrusive_recall** — an unwanted past scene shoved into the present by a sensory cue, carried by mid-task derailment and the past briefly overwriting the here-and-now *[involuntary autobiographical memory; intrusions (Berntsen)]*
+- **motivated_forgetting** — active steering away from one unbearable memory, carried by conspicuous detours, adjacency-dating, and over-general wording exactly at the sore spot *[motivated forgetting; retrieval suppression (Anderson & Green)]*
+- **recognition_no_recall** — certain familiarity with a person stripped of all retrievable context, carried by warm mutual greeting paired with frantic silent cycling of possible contexts *[recognition without recall; butcher-on-the-bus (Mandler)]*
+- **memory_decay** — awareness of a once-sharp memory eroding, carried by inventories of thinning residue and downgrades from specifics to generic impressions *[transience, Schacter's seven sins of memory]*
+- **rote_automaticity** — overlearned material firing intact and unbidden after decades, carried by chanted list cadence and recitation outrunning the speaker's intention *[overlearning and automaticity (Ebbinghaus; Logan)]*
+- **tacit_knowhow** — skill knowledge living in the body and resisting words, carried by feel-based cues, deixis toward doing, and articulation handed off to hands *[tacit knowledge (Polanyi); procedural knowledge]*
+- **fresh_knowledge** — a fact acquired only recently and eagerly over-shared, carried by breathless intensifier stacking, over-precision, and delight exceeding conversational need *[epistemic emotions; information-gap satisfaction (Silvia; Loewenstein)]*
+## Attention & perceptual states (13)
+- **mind_wandering** — agent's attention gone from the present activity to inner content, carried by performed listening, gaze drift, misplaced replies, and lost thread *[mind-wandering / task-unrelated thought (Smallwood & Schooler)]*
+- **hypervigilance** — agent's attention deployed as continuous threat monitoring, carried by seating choices, exit inventory, startle readiness, and tracking of strangers' hands *[hypervigilance / threat monitoring (anxiety and PTSD literature)]*
+- **deep_absorption** — agent wholly inside a task and sealed off from surroundings, carried by unanswered summonses, unnoticed elapsed time, and a world shrunk to the work *[flow and absorption (Csikszentmihalyi; Tellegen absorption scale)]*
+- **salience_capture** — one task-irrelevant detail seizing and holding the agent's gaze, carried by rushed-through main business and repeated returns to the detail *[bottom-up attentional capture (Theeuwes; salience maps)]*
+- **perceptual_uncertainty** — input too degraded for the agent to settle into a stable percept, carried by hedges, mid-sentence revisions, and oscillating identifications *[perception under noise; signal detection uncertainty]*
+- **sensory_habituation** — a constant stimulus fallen out of the agent's awareness, carried by contrast with newcomers' reactions or by surprise only at its cessation *[habituation / sensory adaptation (Thompson & Spencer)]*
+- **divided_attention** — agent stretched across two simultaneous streams with both degrading, carried by interleaved actions, cross-contaminated speech, and doubled or dropped steps *[dual-task interference (Kahneman capacity model)]*
+- **inattentional_blindness** — the just-revealed miss of something in plain view while the agent attended elsewhere, carried by discovery phrasing against the missed thing's obviousness *[inattentional blindness (Mack & Rock; Simons & Chabris)]*
+- **active_search** — goal-directed scanning for one specific absent target, carried by systematic sweeps, retraced routes, and candidate-checking that keeps failing *[visual search / foraging (Treisman; Wolfe guided search)]*
+- **perceptual_vividness** — a stimulus landing on the agent with abnormal force and resolution, carried by impossible micro-detail and sensory overprecision *[flashbulb vividness / arousal-enhanced perception (Brown & Kulik)]*
+- **pareidolic_misperception** — ambiguous input briefly resolved into a wrong but compelling object, carried by narrating the false percept before its mundane correction *[pareidolia; top-down predictive perception]*
+- **sensory_overload** — stimulation flooding past the agent's capacity to filter, carried by stacked unranked stimuli and failure at a trivially easy foreground task *[attentional filter overload (Broadbent; sensory gating)]*
+- **change_sensing** — agent registering that a familiar scene has changed without locating what, carried by re-inspection of items that all check out *[change detection without identification (Rensink sensing)]*
+## Metacognition & epistemic states (11)
+- **overconfidence_gap** — speaker's certainty about succeeding at a task visibly outstrips their competence, carried by breezy ease-words set against thin-preparation details *[overconfidence miscalibration; Dunning-Kruger effect (Moore & Healy)]*
+- **lost_thread** — speaker can no longer follow the structure they are working through, carried by referent tangles, restarts, and mid-sentence reversals *[comprehension-monitoring failure; confusion (D'Mello & Graesser)]*
+- **insight_brink** — an internal understanding about to click into place for the speaker, carried by accelerating detail lists and converging fragments *[warmth ratings approaching insight (Metcalfe); Aha moment]*
+- **secondhand_distrust** — speaker relays a source's claim while withholding all belief in it, carried by attributive verbs, repeated sourcing, and undermining juxtaposition *[epistemic vigilance (Sperber et al.)]*
+- **belief_unraveling** — a long-held conviction of the speaker giving way mid-update, carried by past-tense credos colliding with fresh counter-evidence *[belief revision; dissonance under disconfirmation (Festinger)]*
+- **illusion_of_depth** — speaker mistakes fluent gloss for real understanding, carried by breezy simplicity claims and circular or vacuous mechanism talk *[illusion of explanatory depth (Rozenblit & Keil)]*
+- **suspended_judgment** — speaker deliberately withholds a verdict despite pressure to conclude, carried by symmetric weighing of sides and procedural holding actions *[suspension of judgment; epoché (Friedman)]*
+- **thought_loop** — a thought or phrase replaying in the speaker's mind against their will, carried by verbatim repetition and recurrence markers *[perseverative cognition; rumination (Watkins)]*
+- **error_dawning** — speaker beginning to see that their own past act was a mistake, carried by flat juxtaposition of the act with a disconfirming detail and dawning rereads *[error monitoring and error awareness (ERN literature)]*
+- **self_persuasion** — speaker talking themselves into a belief they have not actually accepted, carried by over-stacked justifications and minimizers like only, just, and anyway *[dissonance reduction; motivated reasoning (Festinger; Kunda)]*
+- **forgotten_something** — speaker's sense of an unfulfilled intention they cannot identify, carried by clean checklists followed by compulsive re-checking *[prospective memory; metamemory monitoring (Einstein & McDaniel)]*
+## Reasoning & judgment (biases in progress) (13)
+- **sunk_cost_commitment** — continuing a course because of past expenditure, carried by tallies of time and money placed where a justification should be *[Sunk-cost effect (Arkes & Blumer); escalation of commitment]*
+- **confirmation_bending** — protecting a held conclusion by warping or waving off inconvenient evidence, carried by dismissive reveals and premature case-closing *[Confirmation bias; motivated skepticism (Nickerson; Ditto & Lopez)]*
+- **anchoring_drag** — an estimate tethered to the first figure encountered, carried by a stated number and a suspiciously nearby judgment *[Anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974)]*
+- **streak_due_thinking** — treating a run of independent outcomes as making the opposite result imminent, carried by streak tallies fused to escalating bets or expectations *[Gambler's fallacy; law of small numbers (Tversky & Kahneman)]*
+- **hindsight_repainting** — past uncertainty recast as foreknowledge once the outcome is known, carried by retrospective certainty markers pinned to earlier scenes *[Hindsight bias / creeping determinism (Fischhoff, 1975)]*
+- **counterfactual_looping** — compulsive replaying of the narrowly-missed alternative outcome, carried by conditional constructions, tiny margins, and vividly re-lived detail *[Counterfactual thinking; regret rumination (Kahneman & Miller; Roese)]*
+- **superstitious_attribution** — causal credit assigned to an irrelevant object or ritual, carried by repeated tokens and outcome pairings presented as expected *[Superstitious conditioning; illusory correlation (Skinner, 1948)]*
+- **vivid_case_override** — a single vivid case outweighing a stated statistical record, carried by an adversative pivot from the numbers to the story *[Base-rate neglect; availability heuristic (Kahneman & Tversky; Bar-Hillel)]*
+- **wishful_inflation** — likelihood of a longed-for outcome pumped up beyond the evidence, carried by strong modals resting on trivially thin signs *[Wishful thinking; desirability bias (Krizan & Windschitl)]*
+- **false_consensus** — the agent's private view projected as everyone's, carried by universal quantifiers and unilateral action on the group's behalf *[False-consensus effect (Ross, Greene & House, 1977)]*
+- **hasty_generalization** — a permanent rule minted from a single instance, carried by a lone past event fused to a sweeping present-tense policy *[Hasty generalization; law of small numbers]*
+- **planning_fallacy** — own-project time and effort drastically underestimated, carried by breezily compressed schedules that itemize steps while ignoring slack *[Planning fallacy (Kahneman & Tversky; Buehler et al.)]*
+- **catastrophizing** — a minor cue inflated into the worst available outcome, carried by an instant inferential bridge from trivial premise to calamity *[Catastrophizing (Beck's cognitive distortions; Ellis)]*
+## Decision, volition & agency (13)
+- **choice_paralysis** — a decision deadlocked between options, carried by looping revision, symmetrical framing, and repeated returns to the same comparison *[decisional conflict theory (Janis & Mann); overchoice]*
+- **akratic_action** — the agent acting against their own acknowledged better judgment, carried by concessive markers and the quiet silencing of self-set safeguards *[akrasia, weakness of will (Aristotle, Davidson)]*
+- **anticipated_regret** — a choice being steered by a vividly imagined future self looking back on it, carried by counterfactual and future-retrospective framing *[regret theory, anticipated regret (Loomes & Sugden; Zeelenberg)]*
+- **resolve_crystallizing** — an unannounced decision quietly hardening into action, carried by tidy sequences of small preparatory deeds and closed-off accounts *[Rubicon model, implemental mindset (Heckhausen & Gollwitzer)]*
+- **temptation_struggle** — an ongoing, unresolved fight against a pull the agent disowns, carried by incremental approach behavior and agency displaced onto the tempting object *[delay of gratification, hot/cool systems (Mischel, Metcalfe)]*
+- **learned_helplessness** — remedies no longer even considered, carried by precise accommodation routines and attention that never turns toward the fixable cause *[learned helplessness (Seligman & Maier)]*
+- **illusion_of_control** — chance outcomes treated as governed by the agent's own technique, carried by causal reasoning that bills random results to rituals *[illusion of control (Langer 1975)]*
+- **choice_rationalization** — the chosen option inflating after the fact, carried by unprompted comparative praise voiced right at the drawback itself *[post-decisional dissonance, spreading of alternatives (Festinger, Brehm)]*
+- **procrastination_ritual** — elaborate deferral of a looming task, carried by lovingly detailed displacement chores performed beside the untouched real work *[procrastination as self-regulation failure (Steel)]*
+- **reluctant_compliance** — outward obedience with inward refusal, carried by hyper-literal, letter-only execution stripped of any voluntary surplus *[compliance without internalization (Kelman); reactance (Brehm)]*
+- **impulsive_leap** — action completed before deliberation begins, carried by syntax in which the deed precedes any reason and consequences arrive late *[impulsivity, delay discounting (Ainslie)]*
+- **decision_reopened** — a finalized choice under silent re-litigation, carried by revisiting behaviors aimed back at the already-committed act *[post-choice doubt, reversibility effects (Gilbert & Ebert)]*
+- **self_binding** — the agent constraining their own anticipated future self, carried by arrangements that pre-empt their own predicted pleading or escape *[precommitment, Ulysses contracts (Schelling, Elster)]*
+## Motivation, drive & goals (11)
+- **approach_avoidance_conflict** — speaker or protagonist simultaneously drawn toward and repelled by the same object or act, carried by advance-retreat action pairs, reversal syntax, and oscillating rhythm *[Miller and Lewin approach-avoidance conflict]*
+- **consuming_curiosity** — a specific unanswered question has seized the agent, carried by fixation on the sealed-off fact, returning attention, and probing actions out of proportion to any practical use *[Loewenstein information-gap theory of curiosity]*
+- **motivational_satiation** — a once-engaging pursuit gone flat for the agent, carried by mechanical setup rituals, large repetition counts, drifting gaze, and gray verb choices *[hedonic adaptation; satiation; boredom research]*
+- **competitive_drive** — the agent measures themselves against a specific rival, carried by checking the rival's numbers before their own, margin detail, and rival-anchored ordering of attention *[Festinger social comparison; rivalry research]*
+- **goal_disengagement** — a long-held goal quietly being released by the agent, carried by lapsed-use timestamps, tools drifting into storage, and small unwinding acts stated without comment *[Wrosch goal disengagement; Brandstaetter action crisis]*
+- **dutiful_obligation** — the agent acts from duty with no appetite of their own, carried by calendar-triggered phrasing, external-expectation clauses, and completion verbs stripped of relish *[self-determination theory introjected regulation]*
+- **mastery_striving** — perfectionist standards aimed at the agent's own craft, carried by microscopic tolerances treated as failures, redo counts, and measurement vocabulary pushed past reasonable need *[perfectionistic strivings; mastery achievement goals]*
+- **specific_craving** — appetite locked onto one particular thing, carried by intrusive sensory closeups of the object and attention snapping back to it against distance or plausibility *[Berridge incentive salience; elaborated intrusion theory]*
+- **status_ambition** — the agent is reaching for a position above their current station, carried by fluent knowledge of the higher rung's trappings and rehearsal of its habits from below *[McClelland achievement motivation; status pursuit]*
+- **sated_contentment** — a long-pursued want fully met and striving switched off, carried by completed-attainment framing, slack unhurried rhythm, and small savoring gestures in place of next moves *[goal attainment quiescence; drive satiation]*
+- **reward_dependence** — only the external payoff pulls the agent through the task, carried by per-unit payout arithmetic, countdowns denominated in the prize, and vivid reward detail beside flat task detail *[SDT external regulation; overjustification effect]*
+## Fine-grained affect (11)
+- **awe_vastness** — speaker overwhelmed by something vaster than their frame of reference, carried by scale contrast and the failure of ordinary speech or routine mid-encounter *[Keltner & Haidt: vastness plus need for accommodation]*
+- **schadenfreude** — quiet pleasure at a rival's or wrongdoer's setback, carried by savoring pace, lingering rituals, and appetitive detail arranged around the bad news *[Schadenfreude; deservingness appraisal (Feather, van Dijk)]*
+- **moral_indignation** — burning sense that fairness or a norm has been violated, carried by pointed juxtaposition, acid verb choice, and ledgered contrasts between the favored and the wronged *[Moral outrage; CAD-triad anger (Rozin et al.)]*
+- **relief_aftermath** — the flood after a feared outcome fails to happen, carried by discharge rhythm, resumed trivia, and the sudden rush of ordinary life back into the frame *[Relief as counterfactual disconfirmation of feared outcome]*
+- **creeping_dread** — the felt weight of a specific bad thing drawing closer, carried by time dilation, reluctant approach, and countdown structure — the feeling, where imminent_event covers the event *[Anticipatory dread; temporal-proximity appraisal (Loewenstein)]*
+- **affective_numbness** — affect conspicuously absent where it should be overwhelming, carried by administrative register, list rhythm, and businesslike sequencing around a devastating fact *[Emotional numbing / dissociation (acute grief literature)]*
+- **indebted_gratitude** — gratitude weighted with felt obligation to a benefactor, carried by ceremonial repayment detail, deference gestures, and debt framing that exceeds the money *[Gratitude-indebtedness distinction (Watkins et al.)]*
+- **longing_absence** — present-tense yearning for an absent person or thing, carried by preserved habits, places kept ready, and routines still shaped around the missing one — nostalgia covers past eras *[Yearning/Sehnsucht; separation distress (attachment theory)]*
+- **suppressed_mirth** — laughter being actively held down in a situation demanding gravity, carried by transparent pretext actions, over-controlled behavior, and solemn-absurd collision *[Amusement suppression; expressive regulation (Gross)]*
+- **bittersweet_milestone** — joy and loss fused in a single present moment, carried by celebration detail shadowed by an unexplained backward or holding-on gesture *[Mixed affect co-activation (Larsen & McGraw)]*
+- **being_moved** — sudden welling at witnessed kindness or connection, carried by composure-recovery pretexts and disproportionate attention to a small warm act *[Kama muta / being moved (Fiske et al.)]*
+## Social cognition & theory of mind (12)
+- **false_belief_tracking** — the speaker knows another person is operating on a mistaken belief and quietly navigates around it, carried by pointed juxtaposition of the other's confident act against unremarked reality *[false-belief attribution (Wimmer & Perner)]*
+- **felt_surveillance** — the speaker behaves as if currently watched and graded, carried by deliberate performance of innocuous acts, corrected posture, and awareness of sightlines *[objective self-awareness; spotlight effect (Gilovich)]*
+- **egocentric_anchoring** — the speaker addresses others as if their own private context were universally shared, carried by unexplained referents, bare deixis for unintroduced things, and irritation at non-understanding *[curse of knowledge; egocentric anchoring (Epley)]*
+- **motive_suspicion** — the speaker privately attributes a hidden agenda to another's neutral or kind act, carried by dwelling on timing, itemized coincidences, and favors weighed against upcoming stakes *[sinister attribution error (Kramer)]*
+- **norm_breach_awareness** — the speaker knows they have just violated an unwritten social rule, carried by replaying the moment, over-repair, and tracking whether others registered it *[faux pas recognition (Baron-Cohen); face-work (Goffman)]*
+- **ingroup_signaling** — the speaker marks group membership through shibboleths offered for fellow members to recognize, carried by untranslated trade terms and insider procedure performed with expectation of recognition *[shibboleths; communities of practice (Lave & Wenger)]*
+- **empathic_distress_tracking** — the speaker has read another person's concealed suffering from minute behavioral evidence, carried by selection of small telling details and quiet accommodations made without comment *[empathic accuracy (Ickes); affective theory-of-mind]*
+- **favor_ledger** — the speaker keeps precise mental books of favors given and owed, carried by exact counts, dates, and costs of past kindnesses surfacing inside a present request *[reciprocity norm (Gouldner); equity theory]*
+- **underestimated_awareness** — the speaker knows others rate their ability below its true level, carried by others' simplified treatment of them set against quiet factual evidence of competence *[metaperception; expectancy effects (Rosenthal)]*
+- **vicarious_embarrassment** — the speaker winces on behalf of another who has not noticed their own social failure, carried by excruciating detail of the oblivious act and the observer's escape into small distractions *[empathic embarrassment (Miller); Fremdscham]*
+- **assumed_incomprehension** — the speaker models their audience as unable to follow and visibly packages material down for them, carried by over-scaffolded explanation, spelled-out obvious steps, and infantilized substitutions *[recipient design (Clark); overaccommodation, elderspeak]*
+- **reputation_tracking** — the speaker models the talk circulating about them in their absence, carried by noticed conversation stops, altered greetings, and their own phrasing returning from strangers *[gossip and reputation (Dunbar); metaperception]*
+## Self & identity (13)
+- **imposter_feeling** — private sense of not belonging in a legitimately earned role, carried by hedged title ownership, deferred authority, and waiting-to-be-corrected details *[impostor phenomenon (Clance & Imes, 1978)]*
+- **identity_threat** — a role or label central to the speaker under external challenge, carried by unprompted tenure counts, credential stacking, and possessive insistence on the role's name *[social identity threat (Tajfel & Turner; Steele)]*
+- **self_estrangement** — speaker fails to recognize their current self, carried by third-person distance from their own voice, hands, and actions, and mirror-moment framing *[self-discrepancy and depersonalization (Higgins; Sierra)]*
+- **social_comparison** — speaker's standing measured against a specific other, stinging or consoling, carried by paired timelines, side-by-side quantities, and age-indexed milestones *[social comparison theory (Festinger, 1954)]*
+- **craft_pride** — quiet satisfaction in the speaker's own skilled work, carried by ritual inspection gestures, loving precision about small correct details, and understatement *[authentic pride (Tracy & Robins); craft (Sennett)]*
+- **felt_aging** — the speaker's own accumulating age registering as lived time, carried by then-versus-now effort gaps, recalibrated defaults, and quiet hand-offs to the young *[subjective age (Kastenbaum; gerontology)]*
+- **anticipated_self** — speaker already inhabiting a role not yet attained, carried by premature use of its props, vocabulary, and routines in the present tense *[possible selves (Markus & Nurius, 1986)]*
+- **role_conflict** — two of the speaker's identities demanding incompatible actions at once, carried by juxtaposed role props and abrupt register switches within one utterance *[role conflict and identity strain (Goode; Stryker)]*
+- **self_efficacy** — how capable the speaker feels of executing their own present task, collapsing or surging, carried by shrinking or expanding goals and the pacing of attempts *[self-efficacy (Bandura, 1977)]*
+- **moral_self_maintenance** — speaker shoring up their standing as a good person, carried by unprompted justifications, virtue ledgers, and pre-emptive accounting for unquestioned choices *[moral self-image and licensing (Monin & Miller; Sachdeva)]*
+- **earned_status_savoring** — a newly granted title or status still novel and privately relished, carried by low-stakes deployment of the marker and small rehearsals of its use *[savoring (Bryant & Veroff); status attainment]*
+- **commitment_disillusion** — a formerly self-defining commitment now hollow to the speaker, carried by mechanical continued participation set against past-tense devotion *[role exit and de-identification (Ebaugh, 1988)]*
+- **unlived_self** — speaker quietly mourning a version of themselves that never happened, carried by tended relics of an abandoned path and counterfactual fluency *[possible selves; inaction regret (Gilovich & Medvec)]*
+## Communicative stance & pragmatics (14)
+- **presupposition_smuggling** — a contested or damaging claim slipped in as settled background, carried by since/when-clauses, definite descriptions, and factive verbs while the foreground discusses something downstream of it *[Presupposition accommodation (Stalnaker; Lewis 1979); loaded questions]*
+- **reassurance_fishing** — the speaker angles to be contradicted with praise or comfort, carried by unsolicited self-lowering comparisons, trailing modals, and hooks that leave an easy opening for reassurance *[Fishing devices (Pomerantz 1980); indirect self-disclosure]*
+- **face_repair** — dignity-repair after a visible blunder, carried by unprompted intent claims, breezy minimizers like obviously, and external attributions recasting the failure as the plan all along *[Facework and remedial interchanges (Goffman 1955, 1971)]*
+- **euphemistic_softening** — something harsh delivered wrapped in cotton, carried by institutional abstractions, agentless constructions, and comfort vocabulary standing in for the brutal word *[Euphemism; negative-face mitigation (Brown & Levinson 1987)]*
+- **performative_modesty** — an achievement downplayed in a way that guarantees it lands, carried by complaint or burden framing whose factual content is unmistakably enviable *[Humblebragging (Sezer, Gino & Norton 2018)]*
+- **trial_balloon** — a desired plan floated deniably to probe reaction, carried by hypotheticals, third-person stand-ins, and idle-wondering frames around suspiciously specific detail *[Off-record speech acts; deniability (Pinker, Nowak & Lee 2008)]*
+- **pointed_omission** — the expected central item conspicuously missing, carried by exhaustive or climactic lists whose detail selection makes the gap itself the message *[Quantity implicature (Grice 1975); conspicuous silence]*
+- **rehearsed_speech** — words composed and polished before the moment, carried by balanced parallel clauses, aphoristic openers, and suspiciously complete syntax where spontaneity belongs *[Planned versus unplanned discourse (Ochs 1979)]*
+- **covert_leave_taking** — the conversation being steered to a close while seeming to continue, carried by anyway-type discourse markers, third-party greetings, and vague future-plan formulas *[Pre-closing sequences (Schegloff & Sacks 1973)]*
+- **non_apology** — apology performed without conceding fault, carried by conditional if-clauses, hurt located in the listener's reaction, and regret verbs replacing ownership *[Accounts theory (Scott & Lyman 1968); infelicitous apology]*
+- **preemptive_excuse** — an alibi built before an evaluated performance, carried by unsolicited disclosures of external obstacles announced just ahead of the attempt *[Self-handicapping (Berglas & Jones 1978)]*
+- **indirect_requesting** — the speaker maneuvers the listener toward offering something unasked, carried by pointed observations of need, route or availability questions, and presuming tag questions *[Indirect speech acts (Searle 1975); off-record requests]*
+- **guilt_induction** — the listener loaded with obligation through the speaker's displayed sacrifice, carried by cheerful self-erasure, tallies of endured hardship, and permission granted where none was sought *[Guilt appeals; interpersonal guilt (Vangelisti et al. 1991)]*
+- **name_dropping** — elite access advertised as incidental background, carried by casual first-naming of famous figures and offhand insider detail framed as irrelevant to the point *[Basking in reflected glory (Cialdini 1976); impression management]*
+## Learning, skill & expertise (14)
+- **novice_disorientation** — a learner operating with no mental model of the task, carried by rote fidelity to someone else's shown steps and open-ended waiting for whatever outcome the procedure is supposed to produce *[Dreyfus model novice stage; rule-based performance]*
+- **expert_automaticity** — effortless unthinking execution betraying thousands of hours, carried by casual simultaneity with other activities, attention pointed elsewhere, and precision treated as beneath notice *[Automaticity; Fitts and Posner autonomous stage]*
+- **plateau_frustration** — sustained effort no longer converting into progress, carried by counted weeks and repetitions set flatly against an unchanged metric *[Learning-curve plateau; Ericsson's arrested development]*
+- **tacit_expertise** — an expert whose judgment lands before any justification exists, carried by a confident verdict acted on immediately with the supporting evidence arriving only later *[Tacit knowledge (Polanyi); recognition-primed decision (Klein)]*
+- **negative_transfer** — a mastered domain's reflexes misfiring inside a new one, carried by the old discipline named or implied while its signature move is applied to a context where it does not belong *[Negative transfer; Einstellung effect]*
+- **skill_decay** — a once-sharp ability gone stiff from disuse, carried by a remembered opening ease that collapses into present fumbling and hands that no longer move on their own *[Skill decay and retention literature (Arthur et al.)]*
+- **breakthrough_consolidation** — a skill that only just clicked being savored and verified, carried by deliberate re-running of the newly working move for no practical reason beyond watching it work *[Insight and consolidation (Kounios and Beeman)]*
+- **deliberate_grind** — effortful repetition at the current edge of ability, carried by isolated micro-passages, deliberately slowed tempo, and restarts targeted at one named flaw *[Deliberate practice (Ericsson, Krampe, Tesch-Romer)]*
+- **teaching_clarity** — understanding crystallizing in the explainer mid-explanation, carried by self-interruption while teaching a named learner and sudden re-attention to the explainer's own material *[Protege effect; self-explanation effect (Chi)]*
+- **procedural_dependence** — calm faithful execution of a procedure with zero model of its purpose, carried by citation of the manual or predecessor as sole justification and unvarying ritual repetition *[Rote versus meaningful learning (Ausubel)]*
+- **beginner_fearlessness** — boldness enabled by not yet knowing the dangers, carried by an explicit recency marker set breezily beside a casual violation of a safeguard experts would never skip *[Unconscious incompetence; Dunning-Kruger effect]*
+- **curse_of_knowledge** — an expert unable to reconstruct not-knowing, carried by fundamentals compressed to a single throwaway instruction and genuine bafflement at a learner's difficulty with them *[Curse of knowledge (Camerer, Loewenstein, Weber)]*
+- **conscious_incompetence** — the humbling dawn of seeing how deep the skill really goes, carried by a hard-won competence marker immediately dwarfed by newly visible territory *[Conscious incompetence; four stages of competence]*
+- **skilled_choking** — a normally automatic skill collapsing the instant it is consciously watched, carried by an observer's trigger followed by sudden awareness of mechanics never noticed before *[Explicit monitoring theory of choking (Beilock)]*
+## Temporal cognition & prospection (14)
+- **time_dilation_compression** — the felt speed of a stretch of time warped for the agent — minutes crawling or hours evaporating — carried by clock or duration markers colliding with the density of what fills them *[subjective duration; prospective vs retrospective timing (Zakay & Block)]*
+- **anticipatory_savoring** — pleasure being deliberately pre-lived and stretched before the event itself, carried by refused shortcuts to the goal, lingering placement of tokens of the plan, and unhurried tending of the interval *[anticipatory savoring (Bryant & Veroff)]*
+- **future_scene_rehearsal** — the agent already mentally inside a scene that has not happened yet, carried by present-tense staging of future events, concrete sensory placement, and step-by-step blocking of a moment still ahead *[episodic future thinking (Atance & O'Neill; Schacter)]*
+- **waiting_limbo** — life suspended pending word from outside with no deadline in sight, carried by half-finished states left deliberately unresolved, plans grammatically conditioned on news, and small acts of vigil *[liminality; uncertain-waiting stress (Sweeny)]*
+- **routine_automaticity** — days collapsed into one interchangeable loop that runs without the agent, carried by habitual aspect, weekday interchangeability, and actions completing before the deciding does *[habit automaticity (Wood & Neal)]*
+- **milestone_reckoning** — a marked date forcing an audit of where the agent stands against past expectations, carried by anniversary arithmetic, tallies of old plans, and ledger-like comparison of intended against actual *[temporal landmarks (Shum); decade-boundary life audits]*
+- **last_time_awareness** — an ordinary act experienced as possibly its final performance, carried by valedictory precision, uncharacteristic lingering, and inventory-like attention to details no routine needs *[anticipatory nostalgia (Batcho); ending-triggered savoring (Kurtz)]*
+- **fresh_start_reset** — a temporal boundary experienced as wiping the slate and restarting the count, carried by first-day markers, emphasis on unmarked or new objects, zeroed tallies, and clean-break handling of an ordinary date *[fresh start effect (Dai, Milkman & Riis)]*
+- **elapsed_time_shock** — a jolt at how much calendar time has silently passed, carried by dates or ages colliding on a page, arithmetic done twice, and small anchors like expired cards betraying the interval *[telescoping error; subjective acceleration with age (Friedman & Janssen)]*
+- **lateness_resignation** — a schedule already lost beyond rescue, each slippage feeding the next while the agent has stopped fighting the clock, carried by flatly tallied delays, surrendered rebooking, and unhurried syntax over stacking misses *[cascade delay; learned helplessness over schedule control]*
+- **cycle_attunement** — time kept by natural or ritual cycles rather than clock or calendar, carried by moon, light, harvest, tide, or feast-day markers used as the agent's working units of when *[event-based time reckoning (Sinha); agrarian circannual timekeeping]*
+- **temporal_abundance** — time experienced as wide open and unspent with nothing pressing on the hour, carried by unhurried clause pacing, plans held loosely optional, and outcomes surrendered to small pleasures *[time affluence (Kasser & Sheldon)]*
+- **foreshortened_horizon** — the agent's whole planning horizon quietly contracted, the future budgeted in small remaining units, carried by short-dated purchases, declined long commitments, and near-term-only arrangements *[socioemotional selectivity theory (Carstensen); foreshortened future]*
+- **temporal_disorientation** — the agent has lost their footing in calendar or clock time, carried by dating errors surfacing late, day-of-week collisions, anchor-checking behavior, and daylight or meal cues contradicting the assumed hour *[zeitgeber disruption; temporal disorientation in shift work]*
+## New domains (15)
+- **fitness_gym** — weight rooms, trainers, group classes, lockers, mirrors
+- **dating_romance** — first dates, dating apps, blind setups, breakups, matchmakers
+- **weddings_celebrations** — receptions, toasts, seating charts, gift registries, anniversaries
+- **funerals_estates** — wakes, eulogies, wills, inheritance disputes, memorials
+- **retail_shopping** — aisles, checkouts, returns, fitting rooms, flea markets
+- **hotels_hospitality** — front desks, lobbies, housekeeping, room service, concierges
+- **nightlife_bars** — pubs, karaoke stages, bartenders, dance floors, last calls
+- **pets_animals** — vet waiting rooms, dog parks, adoptions, grooming, obedience classes
+- **emergency_response** — fire stations, dispatch calls, paramedics, evacuations, drills
+- **politics_elections** — campaigns, canvassing, debates, ballots, council meetings
+- **museums_archives** — exhibits, curators, reading rooms, tour groups, catalogues
+- **crafts_hobbies** — knitting circles, woodworking shops, model kits, craft fairs, kilns
+- **auto_repair_driving** — garages, mechanics, driving lessons, breakdowns, dealerships
+- **social_media_online** — feeds, influencers, comment threads, livestreams, group chats
+- **film_tv_production** — film sets, casting calls, editing suites, table reads, premieres
+## Dropped as cross-agent duplicates
+- metacognition_epistemic/tip_of_tongue: duplicate of memory_knowledge/tip_of_tongue
+- metacognition_epistemic/source_blur: duplicate of memory_knowledge/source_confusion
+- metacognition_epistemic/information_hunger: duplicate of motivation_goal/consuming_curiosity (both Loewenstein info-gap)
+- attention_perception/perceptual_estrangement: duplicate of memory_knowledge/jamais_vu (same construct, same alien-surname example)
+- motivation_goal/flow_absorption: duplicate of attention_perception/deep_absorption
+- motivation_goal/sunk_cost_entrapment: duplicate of reasoning_judgment/sunk_cost_commitment
+- decision_volition/sunk_cost_grip: duplicate of reasoning_judgment/sunk_cost_commitment
+- reasoning_judgment/motivated_rationalization: territory covered by metacognition/self_persuasion (belief-directed) + decision/choice_rationalization (post-choice)
+- motivation_goal/task_aversion: duplicate of decision_volition/procrastination_ritual (same spice-rack example)
+- affect_fine/vicarious_embarrassment: duplicate of social_tom/vicarious_embarrassment (same best-man/napkin example)
+- affect_fine/ambivalence: duplicate of motivation_goal/approach_avoidance_conflict (agent itself cites approach-avoidance as anchor)
+- affect_fine/concealed_pride: duplicate of pragmatic_stance/performative_modesty (pride performed as modesty)
+- social_tom/impression_management: territory covered by performative_modesty + name_dropping + face_repair + reputation_tracking