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19 admitted studies 18 bounded findings 8 Article-level gap records

Current bounded contacts

Findings

Each card separates what a study found from how that result bears on a specific Article. These are research contacts, not replacements for the canonical text.

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Article Two

Bounded claim: Poverty and scarcity can consume cognitive resources, so compliance, refusal, or poor performance cannot automatically be treated as evidence of free will or character.

Study result: Laboratory and field experiments reported reduced cognitive performance when poverty-related financial concerns were salient.

Inference boundary: The study did not measure consent directly; applying the result to voluntariness is an inference.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article Two

Bounded claim: Trauma-informed care is widely implemented, but comparative evidence remains insufficient to determine effects across patient and client outcomes.

Study result: An AHRQ systematic review found insufficient comparative evidence for clear conclusions about trauma-informed-care outcomes.

Inference boundary: Insufficient evidence is not evidence of no effect, and results cannot resolve every duty in the Article.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article One

Bounded claim: Conditioning food assistance on work and reporting requirements can sharply reduce access among clinically and socioeconomically vulnerable recipients without producing a measurable transition off the broader safety net.

Study result: A quasi-experimental cohort study associated reinstated SNAP work requirements with reduced program participation among vulnerable beneficiaries without evidence of transition off the broader safety net.

Inference boundary: One state policy and enrollment outcome cannot determine moral contribution, long-term employment, or allocation during acute scarcity.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article Four

Bounded claim: Teaching consequential instructions in usable language and asking the recipient to explain them back can improve comprehension, recall, self-management, and some health outcomes.

Study result: A systematic review found teach-back can improve health knowledge, recall, self-management, and some outcomes across heterogeneous studies.

Inference boundary: Health-education evidence does not prove generalization to all law or make enforcement legitimate by itself.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article Six

Bounded claim: Collective political power is not reducible to violence: nonviolent campaigns have often achieved political goals by widening participation, gaining legitimacy, and inducing loyalty shifts.

Study result: A comparative campaign study reported greater success for nonviolent than violent campaigns in its dataset and analyzed participation and loyalty-shift mechanisms.

Inference boundary: Historical observational comparison is not a complete theory of authority and does not show violence is never decisive.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article Seven

Bounded claim: Many natural-language categories have graded internal structure rather than a single sharp boundary, so imposing a fixed definition before conversation can misrepresent ordinary meaning.

Study result: Experiments found graded typicality effects within several ordinary semantic categories.

Inference boundary: Ordinary semantic-category experiments do not govern legal drafting or technical interfaces.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article One

Bounded claim: Shared provision is more likely to be sustained when a community can visibly sanction free riding, and people will bear personal cost to enforce contribution norms.

Study result: Public-goods experiments found that participants paid to sanction free riders and that sanction availability increased cooperation.

Inference boundary: Laboratory monetary sanctions do not test withholding food, shelter, care, or safety and cannot license a specific real-world sanction.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article One

Bounded claim: Where sanctions withdrawing material support have been studied at scale, they moved people into worse and less stable work while producing material hardship, health problems, and poorer child wellbeing.

Study result: A scoping review found benefit sanctions associated with hardship, adverse health and child outcomes, and movement into lower-quality, less stable work.

Inference boundary: State welfare regimes differ from the Article's community-scale clause, so the contact is analogical and bounded.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article Four

Bounded claim: Legal empowerment interventions that teach law to laypeople — legal literacy education, community paralegals — most commonly increase legal knowledge and people's willingness and ability to act.

Study result: A systematic evidence map found legal-literacy and community-paralegal studies most commonly reported improved knowledge and agency.

Inference boundary: The map did not establish a pooled causal effect or validate one teaching method, and the underlying evidence was uneven.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article Five

Bounded claim: Cognitive capacity reaches adult levels years before psychosocial maturity, so demonstrated competence in a field can be present while impulse control and resistance to peer influence are still developing — an empirical basis for the age-based lines the article replaces.

Study result: A multinational cross-sectional study found cognitive capacity reached adult levels earlier than psychosocial maturity.

Inference boundary: Cross-sectional measures do not evaluate the Article's portfolio process or determine a universal adulthood rule.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article One

Bounded claim: Cash, vouchers, and in-kind food can each support emergency food security, while their relative effectiveness and efficiency depend on markets, security, delivery capacity, recipient selection, and the outcome being optimized.

Study result: A systematic review found no universally superior emergency-assistance modality; cash, vouchers, and in-kind food varied with setting and outcome.

Inference boundary: Sparse, generally low-quality evidence through 2014 does not determine contribution rules or justified exclusion.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article Two

Bounded claim: Across health contexts, autonomy support, psychological-need satisfaction, and autonomous motivation are positively related to sustained health behavior and beneficial mental and physical health outcomes.

Study result: A meta-analysis linked autonomy support, need satisfaction, and autonomous motivation with sustained health behavior and beneficial health outcomes.

Inference boundary: Heterogeneous health settings do not validate every duty in Article Two or make coercion autonomy-supportive.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article Two

Bounded claim: Necessary unpaid care can transfer anxiety and depression risk to caregivers, so survival duties cannot be allocated as though caregivers possess unlimited time, health, or support.

Study result: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies found greater anxiety and depression among unpaid caregivers than noncaregivers in included settings.

Inference boundary: Observational, geographically sparse evidence cannot show care is intrinsically harmful or prescribe one allocation system.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article Three

Bounded claim: In a concurrent repeated-game model, social crosstalk can spread defection, make strict act-for-act retaliation brittle, and require stronger bounded forgiveness to preserve cooperation.

Study result: A mathematical and simulation study found that crosstalk across concurrent repeated games can spread defection and require stronger forgiveness for cooperation.

Inference boundary: A stylized non-empirical model does not establish real-world consent to retaliation or require anyone to remain exposed to abuse.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text model/result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article Four

Bounded claim: Plain-language redrafting can improve non-expert comprehension of legal contracts, but language simplification alone leaves substantial misunderstanding when complex concepts conflict with prior knowledge and beliefs.

Study result: A controlled experiment found plain-language legal contracts improved nonexpert comprehension while substantial misunderstanding remained.

Inference boundary: Contract comprehension in one experimental setting cannot establish comprehension of all laws or populations.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article Six

Bounded claim: Small groups show stable differences in collective performance, but experiments conflict over whether conversational equality and social sensitivity or the cognitive ability of members best explains those differences.

Study result: Small-group experiments found a collective-performance factor, while later replication and model tests disputed which member and interaction variables explained it.

Inference boundary: Small selected groups and tasks cannot validate twelve-person circles, singular emergency leadership, or authority derived from violence.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locators for both studies have not yet been recorded.

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Article Seven

Bounded claim: Shared professional terminology can improve documentation, coordination, prediction, knowledge, self-efficacy, and some outcomes, while current causal evidence remains low-certainty and methodologically heterogeneous.

Study result: A systematic review and meta-analysis found possible documentation, coordination, knowledge, and outcome benefits from standardized nursing terminologies, with very low-to-low certainty.

Inference boundary: Terminology was often embedded in larger interventions, most evidence was observational, and ordinary conversation was not studied.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

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Article Eight

Bounded claim: Decision aids that make options explicit and communicate benefits, harms, probabilities, and personal values help adults make more informed, active, values-congruent health choices without increasing decision regret.

Study result: A Cochrane review of randomized trials found decision aids improved knowledge, risk perception, active participation, and informed values-congruent choices without increasing regret.

Inference boundary: Health-treatment and screening decisions do not establish a universal consent standard or settle every conflict among autonomy, harm, and public duty.

Locator: hmmm — exact full-text result locator has not yet been recorded.

Admitted source set

Studies

These are the records currently classified as research studies by the source-admission ledger. Admission establishes record class, not truth.

Browse 19 admitted studies
Laboratory and field experiments

Poverty impedes cognitive function

Anandi Mani; Sendhil Mullainathan; Eldar Shafir; Jiaying Zhao · 2013

Evidence mode: empirical

Boundary: Warns that apparent willingness, refusal, or competence may be distorted by scarcity and should not be read as unconstrained choice.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Systematic review

Trauma Informed Care: A Systematic Review

Viann N. Nguyen-Feng et al. · 2025

Evidence mode: systematic_synthesis

Boundary: Evidence was insufficient for clear outcome determinations; trauma-informed language must not be presented as evidence-closed.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Quasi-experimental cohort study

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Work Requirements and Safety-Net Program Participation

Chima D. Ndumele; Hannah Factor; Matthew Lavallee; Anthony Lollo Jr.; Jacob Wallace · 2025

Evidence mode: empirical

Boundary: Studies one state policy and program-enrollment outcomes; it does not determine moral contribution, global food allocation, or the effects of every work requirement.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Systematic review

Teach-back: A systematic review of implementation and impacts

Jason Talevski; Anna Wong Shee; Bodil Rasmussen; Georgie Kemp; Alison Beauchamp · 2020

Evidence mode: systematic_synthesis

Boundary: The included studies were heterogeneous and generally moderate quality; health education evidence does not establish that teach-back generalizes to all law or makes enforcement legitimate.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Comparative observational study

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

Maria J. Stephan; Erica Chenoweth · 2008

Evidence mode: empirical

Boundary: Campaign-level historical evidence is not a complete theory of authority, does not show that violence is never decisive, and does not replace bounded emergency command.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Experimental study

Cognitive representations of semantic categories

Eleanor Rosch · 1975

Evidence mode: empirical

Boundary: Experiments on semantic categories do not govern legal drafting or technical interface standards; stipulative definitions remain useful for consequential load-bearing terms.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Public-goods laboratory experiments

Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments

Ernst Fehr; Simon Gächter · 2000

Evidence mode: empirical

Boundary: Laboratory monetary sanctions among anonymous players; it does not test excluding people from food or safety, and it does not license any specific real-world sanction.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Scoping review of quantitative studies

The Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Research Evidence

Serena Pattaro; Nick Bailey; Evan Williams; Marcia Gibson; Valerie Wells; Mark Tranmer; Chris Dibben · 2022

Evidence mode: systematic_synthesis

Boundary: Studies state welfare-conditionality regimes; it does not directly evaluate the article's community-scale provision or its specific exclusion clause.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Systematic evidence map

What Do We Know about Legal Empowerment? Mapping the Evidence

Laura Goodwin; Vivek Maru · 2017

Evidence mode: systematic_synthesis

Boundary: A mapping of an uneven evidence base, not a meta-analysis; it supports teaching law to laypeople without establishing any single program's effectiveness.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Multinational cross-sectional study

Adolescents' cognitive capacity reaches adult levels prior to their psychosocial maturity: Evidence for a "maturity gap" in a multinational, cross-sectional sample

Grace Icenogle; Laurence Steinberg; Natasha Duell; Jason Chein; et al. · 2019

Evidence mode: empirical

Boundary: Cross-sectional self-report and task measures; it identifies a maturity gap but does not evaluate the article's specific portfolio-and-proclamation process.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Systematic review

Cash-based approaches in humanitarian emergencies: a systematic review

Shannon Doocy; Hannah Tappis · 2017

Evidence mode: systematic_synthesis

Boundary: The effectiveness evidence was sparse and generally low quality, with searches ending in November 2014; no transfer modality was universally superior across emergencies.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Systematic review and meta-analysis

Self-Determination Theory Applied to Health Contexts: A Meta-Analysis

Johan Y. Y. Ng; Nikos Ntoumanis; Cecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani; Edward L. Deci; Richard M. Ryan; Joan L. Duda; Geoffrey C. Williams · 2012

Evidence mode: systematic_synthesis

Boundary: The evidence is heterogeneous and concentrated in healthcare and health-promotion settings; it does not validate every duty in Article Two or make coercion effective elsewhere.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

Health outcomes of unpaid caregivers in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Irene Magaña; Pablo Martínez; María-Soledad Loyola · 2020

Evidence mode: systematic_synthesis

Boundary: The evidence is observational, geographically sparse, and culturally heterogeneous; it does not show that care is intrinsically harmful or determine how necessary care should be shared.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Mathematical model and simulation study

Crosstalk in concurrent repeated games impedes direct reciprocity and requires stronger levels of forgiveness

Johannes G. Reiter; Christian Hilbe; David G. Rand; Krishnendu Chatterjee; Martin A. Nowak · 2018

Evidence mode: formal_simulation

Boundary: This is a formal model supported by simulations, not a direct field trial; forgiveness in a repeated game is not an instruction to remain exposed to abuse.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Controlled comprehension experiment

Comprehension of legal contracts by non-experts: Effectiveness of plain language redrafting

Michael E. J. Masson; Mary Anne Waldron · 1994

Evidence mode: empirical

Boundary: Absolute comprehension remained low and complex legal concepts still conflicted with prior beliefs; contract experiments do not establish comprehension of every law.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Small-group experiments

Evidence for a collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups

Anita Williams Woolley; Christopher F. Chabris; Alex Pentland; Nada Hashmi; Thomas W. Malone · 2010

Evidence mode: empirical

Boundary: The experiments used small groups and selected tasks; the proposed predictors were challenged by later replication work and do not validate any fixed circle size or authority structure.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Replication and latent-variable model tests

Smart groups of smart people: Evidence for IQ as the origin of collective intelligence in the performance of human groups

Timothy C. Bates; Shivani Gupta · 2017

Evidence mode: empirical

Boundary: These studies challenge rather than erase the original findings; they use small experimental groups and do not establish that interaction processes are irrelevant in real institutions.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Systematic review and meta-analysis

Impact of standardized nursing terminologies on patient and organizational outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Luca Bertocchi; Angelo Dante; Carmen La Cerra; Vittorio Masotta; Alessia Marcotullio; Dorothy Jones; Cristina Petrucci; Loreto Lancia · 2023

Evidence mode: systematic_synthesis

Boundary: GRADE certainty was very low to low, most studies were observational, and terminology was often embedded in larger interventions; causal effects remain uncertain.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending
Cochrane systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions

Dawn Stacey et al. · 2024

Evidence mode: systematic_synthesis

Boundary: The review concerns health treatment and screening decisions, with evidence current to March 2022; adherence, resource effects, and representation of resource-limited countries remain incomplete.

Risk of bias: hmmm-design-specific-appraisal-pending · funding/conflicts: hmmm-extraction-pending · corrections/retractions: hmmm-integrity-check-pending

Visible incompletion

Evidence gaps

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Article One

Support: qualifying-study-found
Dissent: qualifying-study-found
Mixed or limit: qualifying-study-found

The current candidate ledger contains study contact in both directions; a comprehensive database search, independent duplicate screening, full-text locators, and design-specific risk-of-bias appraisals remain incomplete.

Screened 2026-07-31
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Article Two

Support: qualifying-study-found
Dissent: qualifying-study-found
Mixed or limit: qualifying-study-found

The current candidate ledger contains study contact in both directions; a comprehensive database search, independent duplicate screening, full-text locators, and design-specific risk-of-bias appraisals remain incomplete.

Screened 2026-07-31
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Article Three

Support: no-qualifying-study-found
Dissent: no-qualifying-study-found
Mixed or limit: qualifying-study-found

Only a non-empirical formal/simulation study currently qualifies. No qualifying support or dissent study is in the screened candidate ledger; a broader systematic search and empirical field evidence are needed.

Screened 2026-07-31
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Article Four

Support: qualifying-study-found
Dissent: no-qualifying-study-found
Mixed or limit: qualifying-study-found

No qualifying dissent study is in the screened candidate ledger. A broader search should test failure modes of legal education, teach-back, plain-language drafting, and comprehension-dependent enforcement.

Screened 2026-07-31
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Article Five

Support: no-qualifying-study-found
Dissent: qualifying-study-found
Mixed or limit: no-qualifying-study-found

No qualifying support study is in the screened candidate ledger. Studies directly evaluating competence portfolios, supported decision-making, task specificity, and age-based alternatives are needed.

Screened 2026-07-31
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Article Six

Support: no-qualifying-study-found
Dissent: qualifying-study-found
Mixed or limit: qualifying-study-found

No qualifying support study is in the screened candidate ledger. Direct evidence on bounded emergency authority, leader selection, group size, accountability, transfer, and demobilization is needed.

Screened 2026-07-31
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Article Seven

Support: no-qualifying-study-found
Dissent: qualifying-study-found
Mixed or limit: qualifying-study-found

No qualifying support study is in the screened candidate ledger. Research should compare negotiated, imposed, and standardized definitions across ordinary, technical, legal, and cross-cultural settings.

Screened 2026-07-31
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Article Eight

Support: qualifying-study-found
Dissent: no-qualifying-study-found
Mixed or limit: no-qualifying-study-found

No qualifying dissent or limit study is in the screened candidate ledger. Research is needed on consent failure, collective harms, vulnerability, coercion, and competing definitions of harm.

Screened 2026-07-31

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The current corpus is a screened legacy candidate set, not a comprehensive systematic review. Provisional locators and appraisal gaps remain visible on the findings that still require them.