NEXORD Laboratory Manifesto: Relational Games, Metaperception, and Psychosocial Research Agenda. Conceptual Foundations, Micro-Interaction Protocols, and Group Dynamics Program around the VISORD Platform
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: ---Working Paper / Programmatic Research Document (NEXORD / VISORD 2026 Collection). "Induce structural tension without generating personal harm; train participants in operational rules and interfaces, never in relational outcomes. In the NEXORD Laboratory, we script the field of forces, never the sociomatrix nor personal free choices."— José Manuel Cornejo Álvarez This foundational manifesto formalizes the conceptual foundations, interaction protocols, and scientific program for the NEXORD / VISORD Experimental Laboratory of Group Relations. Conceived as a living, applied psychosocial research facility, the laboratory serves as an intermediate methodological platform between formal mathematical modeling and the daily reality of human groups, operating within NEXORD's quadruple evidence framework: 1. Cultural Corpora and Dramatic Works -> 2. In Silico Simulation -> 3. Laboratory Relational Games -> 4. Natural Community Groups. Core Foundations of the Laboratory: 1. Methodological Scope (Scripting the Field, Never the Sociomatrix): The research team designs resource caps, structural constraints, and informational asymmetries, but interpersonal alignments, choices, affective tensions, and emerging rankings remain strictly sovereign, human, and factual. 2. Ethical Departure from Classical Deception Paradigms: Explicit break from 20th-century dramatic interventionism (Asch's confederates, Milgram's fake electric shocks, Zimbardo's Stanford prison escalation). In contrast, NEXORD adopts transparent cooperative structural interdependence inspired by Kurt Lewin, Morton Deutsch, and Elliot Aronson's Jigsaw Classroom. 3. The Trained Participant Panel: Technical justification of collaborators skilled in group dynamics and psychodrama, ensuring swift (under 10 seconds) and candid recording on Hand-Pod terminals and self/role dissociation, while rigorously evaluating role-learning and experimental demand constraints. 4. The Relational Tetragram as a Generative Matrix: Deployment of the six formal analytical contrasts derived from the dyadic cell [A1, A2, A3, A4] (combining emitted preference, received choice, expected support, and perceived peer expectations) across the Q(81) spectrum, where position '0' denotes functional indifference or positional absence, free of punitive connotations. 5. The Longitudinal Five-Act Schedule and Relational Hysteresis Hypothesis: A falsifiable proposition postulating that during post-conflict repair, observable material aid resumes first out of task necessity, followed by declared sociometric preference, while internal cognitive expectations of trust display a persistent temporal lag. 6. Accessible Space Architecture (VISORD Pod): Low-cost MVP setup (common seminar room, circular table, air-gapped local Wi-Fi, personal smartphones, and local Flask server) scalable to full research facilities with 10-inch fixed touchscreens, boundary microphones, and one-way observation booths. Decouples acoustic diarization, local speech-to-text transcription, and Robert F. Bales' IPA functional coding. 7. Deontological Blindage and Systemic De-Culpabilization (Canon 21): Absolute prohibition of publicly projecting individual rejection matrices; safe aggregated-only feedback; a structured 5-step Des-Roling ritual; and air-gapped data custody. 8. Applied High-Impact Research Agenda: Turnkey experimental tracks for urban neighborhood mediation, anti-bullying/mobbing interventions via passive bystander activation, common-pool water governance under acute drought, and affective depolarization in deliberative citizen assemblies. Open Science and Custody Notice: Text, diagrams, and protocols licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0). The VISORD/NEXORD operational platform, calculation engines, proprietary algorithms, and micro-record databases remain under restricted custody of the author/project and are not part of the open distribution of this document.
Author: Cornejo Alvarez, José Manuel
Institution: Universitat de Barcelona
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225561521