Candidate studies

Cognitive defence & judgment

Cross-Ideological Trust Under Divide-and-ConquerDoes working a hard problem together, and the disclosure it requires, build durable trust across an ideological divide where dialogue does not?
Real-Stakes Practice and Identity-Protective CognitionDoes real-stakes practice protect judgment on identity-charged questions, the kind where sharper reasoning usually deepens bias instead of reducing it?
Detecting and Countering Shaped SilenceCan a shaped-silence cascade be staged as a controlled wargame that measures who can see through it and choose how to act?
Trust Networks vs. Hierarchies Under AttackUnder cognitive attack, does a trust network hold its judgment better than a hierarchy, or is the network the substrate the attack spreads through?

Trained Judgment Under AI Denial and CompromiseWhen the AI is denied or turned against the operator, does Missionloops-trained judgment hold where AI-reliant judgment collapses or gets steered?
Durability of Trained JudgmentDoes the trained effect persist after practice stops, how fast does it decay, and what is the minimal dose for lasting impact?
Symmetric Adoption in NegotiationWhen both sides of a real dispute bring strategic empathy, does it converge to win-win or escalate into an arms race of cleverness?

Calibrating Self-Knowledge Through the GuideDoes working with a guide make an operator's sense of how good they are match how good they actually are, where practising alone does not?
Measuring Self-Directed AgencyIs the disposition to act on your own judgment a trainable capacity, or a fixed trait?
Guiding as Leadership FormationDoes guiding develop the guide, or just the operator? Is the leadership pipeline real or decorative?
Goal Formation as Cultural EvolutionDoes training make operators form their own goals that diverge from the crowd's, and keep generating new ones, rather than competing harder on inherited goals?
Graduated AI Access and Judgment AtrophyDoes graduated AI access sharpen or atrophy independent judgment, and where does it flip?
Self-Authored Goal FormationWhere does the human-AI handoff stop, and is goal-revision the floor it cannot cross because the AI cannot read the inner state that revises the goal?

Bystander Spillover in the NetworkDoes the presence of one trained operator lower conformity in the untrained members of their peer group?
How Cognitive Skill Spreads Through a NetworkDoes Missionloops capability spread operator-to-operator, and in the cluster topology the ratchet needs rather than a prestige-driven hub?
Cross-Community Bridges and RecombinationDo cross-community pairs produce creative leaps that same-community pairs do not, or does the friction of bridging cancel the benefit?
Veteran Integration and Network HardeningDoes a veteran-integrated network resist cognitive intrusion better than a civilian-only one, and which mechanism does the work?
Resilience and Innovation as One PropertyAt the operator level, is resistance to cognitive warfare the same capacity as innovation that survives conformity?
The Self-Spreading Cure Under AttackDoes attacking the network make it stronger or weaker?

Rule-Discovery as InnovationDoes the platform train a transferable rule-discovery skill, find the real ruleset and redesign your position to it, or only showcase people who already had it?
Bottom-Up Doctrine GenerationDoes the civilian network actually surface doctrine that DRDC's own research cohorts cannot generate, or does it just reinvent what the institution already has?

The Mature Compendium as InstrumentAs operators master the platform, do the best techniques become the ones the compendium can least capture?
Governing the Doctrine CanonCan doctrine quality and integrity survive without a central authority, through one-way enclave intake and cross-pollinating forks?

Retention Through GuidingDoes making thriving veterans visible in the network make serving members stay in the CAF, or leave sooner?
The Recruiting SignalDoes the aptitude a veteran sees while training a young operator predict CAF success better than standard recruiting does?
Self-Organizing Resilience in Northern CommunitiesDo Northern communities given the platform self-organize the coordination capacity that top-down programmes do not produce?
The Friction-Aggregation Policy ChannelDoes the network's field-friction signal surface structural problems the institution cannot see from the inside, or is it just articulate complaint?
The Network–Government BoundaryOf the friction operators hit working real problems in the North, how much can the trust network resolve in the field, and how much is genuinely rule-stuck?
Institutional Reception of a Disinterested SignalDoes the institution act on a routed friction signal and change a rule, or absorb it into activity that looks like a response while nothing closes?