The Research Program
Publication I
Learning in Humans versus Hierarchies (2019)
A Scientific Question
Can organizations learn, or do only people learn?
Primary Contribution
Learning occurs between individuals interacting through supervisory relationships which provides the potential to solve increasing complex organzational problems.
Key Insight
Human learning - not organizational structure - is the adaptive foundation of institutional improvement.
Publication II
Unconscious Bias Is a Human Condition
Scientific Question
What cognitive process limits human learning?
Primary Contribution
Unconscious bias reflects a universal feature of human cognition.
Key Insight
Learning is constrained by unconscous cognitive processes shared by all people.
Publication III
Etiology of Belief-Behavior Systems and Hierarchies (2021)
Scientific Question
What gives rise to supervisory belief-behavior systems?
Primary Contribution
Unconscious epistemological beliefs concerning the certainty of one’s own knowledge constitute the proposed underlying mechanism which results in either effective or ineffective adaptation.
Key Insight
Supervisory cognition becomes the proposed explanatory mechanism.
Monograph
The Belief-Behavior Systems Archetype
Scientific Question
What are the broader implications of this explanatory rule?
Primary Contribution
The adaptive progression:
Learning > Truth > Problem Solving > Justice > Democratic Human Hierarchies > Human Flourishing > Sustainability