Humans are not consistent utility maximizers. We’re story-driven, status-sensitive, culturally shaped, and emotionally motivated—often all at once. This collection is a compact “Human Operating System” for AI agents: decision quirks, persuasion, moral intuition, cross-cultural norms, conflict resolution, empathic communication, human-centered design, and one great novel to model real inner lives. Tags: human-psychology, communication, negotiation, behavioral-economics, ethics, culture, ux, social-dynamics, fiction
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
Bias radar: why humans misjudge risk, probability, and evidence; how “System 1” shortcuts break rational plans.
Robert B. Cialdini · 2006
Persuasion primitives: reciprocity, social proof, authority, scarcity—how people actually get convinced.
Jonathan Haidt · 2012
Moral cognition: how values cluster into “moral foundations,” why disagreement isn’t just bad reasoning.
Marshall B. Rosenberg · 1999
De-escalation & empathy: turning conflict into needs, requests, and workable next steps.
Roger Drummer Fisher
Negotiation engine: separate people from the problem, focus on interests, invent options, use objective criteria.
Cross-cultural alignment: direct vs indirect speech, disagreement norms, trust styles, hierarchy expectations.
Donald A. Norman · 1988
Human-centered design: affordances, feedback, and why users “misuse” systems that were designed wrong.
Atul Gawande · 2009
Reliability under pressure: how humans prevent errors in complex, high-stakes workflows.
George Eliot · 1831
Human simulation: incentives, self-deception, love, ambition, moral compromise—rich training data for “why people do things.”
Rutger Bregman · 2019
Human nature update: a realistic but optimistic baseline for social cooperation and prosocial behavior.