For · Researchers
For researchers.
The lab's agenda is open: mapping the default mode of the worst self — across ethnicity, geography, and culture. If your work touches it, the institutes want to hear from you.
Partner with the institutes
The Institute for Default Research owns methodology, validation, and the dataset. University partnerships, instrument validation studies, and cross-cultural work route through IDR. The World Default Organization publishes the Index and welcomes scrutiny of its tables.
The standing invitations
- Validate the eight-pattern engine against established instruments.
- Extend the taxonomy where the data says it is thin.
- Run the conversations in populations the Index hasn't reached.