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Total Models
Open Standard
mind-models
A structured library of psychological models designed to be readable by humans, parseable by tools, and reliable enough to build on. Use it as a research reference, a teaching surface, a product thinking toolkit, or a machine-readable foundation for agents and search.
Human-readable markdown
Generated JSON artifacts
Category landing pages
Validation workflow
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Categories
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Generated Artifacts
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Validation Workflow
Start Here
Library
Browse the full categorized catalog with summaries, origins, tags, and related-model links.
Search
Filter the library quickly by model name, tags, category, or core concept using the generated index.
models.json
Use the normalized export for agents, scripts, embeddings, indexing, or downstream tooling.
Chunk Export
Use chunk-level records when you need embeddings-ready text units instead of whole-model documents.
Schema
See the markdown contract that every model file follows across the repository.
Category Pages
Browse each category as its own landing page with focused summaries and direct links.
Tabular Exports
Pull the library into spreadsheets, notebooks, or bulk ingestion flows using generated CSV outputs.
Explore by Category
Cognitive
Biases, heuristics, and metacognition
Anchoring, confirmation bias, availability, dissonance, halo effects, and other models that shape perception and reasoning.
Behavioral
Habits, rewards, and motivation loops
Conditioning, motivation, self-perception, and repeatable behavior change frameworks that show up in learning and product design.
Decision
Judgment under uncertainty
Loss aversion, framing, recency, status quo bias, and the shortcuts people use when making choices with incomplete information.
Social
Influence, conformity, and group dynamics
Authority, social proof, reciprocity, groupthink, in-group bias, and the forces that spread beliefs and behaviors through groups.
Emotional
Affect, identity, and emotional adaptation
Imposter syndrome, hedonic adaptation, emotional contagion, attribution, and other models that shape felt experience.
Developmental
Learning and growth across stages
Attachment theory, growth mindset, theory of mind, social learning, and stage-based models of development and skill acquisition.
Coverage
The library now spans cognitive biases, conditioning loops, social influence, affective dynamics, decision frameworks, and developmental models. It is intentionally broad enough to support research, teaching, product work, and agent-oriented reasoning.
What You Can Do With It
Teach faster
Use compact model pages as lecture prompts, handouts, reading lists, or discussion starters for psychology, design, and decision-making courses.
Design better systems
Map product decisions against motivation, social influence, habit formation, and bias to spot likely user failure modes earlier.
Power search and agents
Use the normalized exports, chunk files, and search index to support retrieval, embeddings, tagging, and structured downstream workflows.
Maintenance
python scripts/sync_front_matter.py
python scripts/validate_models.py
python scripts/build_index.py
python scripts/export_tabular.py
The GitHub Actions workflow validates model structure and confirms generated artifacts are committed.