These terms reflect the Biasology lens. They name patterns that are often felt before they are recognized, especially when institutions treat their own interpretation as more credible than lived experience.
Biasology is not a diagnosis. It is a lens for examining how systems interpret difference, distress, and lived experience.
Terms
Authority Bias ↗
A cognitive bias where people are more likely to believe or obey perceived authority figures, even in the absence of evidence.
Biasology ↗
The study of how systemic bias harms people through diagnosis, framing, and interpretation; a field of epistemic liberation and survivor logic.
Containment Playbook ↗
Tactics used by systems to neutralize dissent without accountability, including performative validation and redirection to process.
Diagnostic Gaze ↗
The internalized sense of being observed or interpreted through a clinical or institutional lens.
Epistemic Harm ↗
The injury caused when someone’s way of knowing is dismissed, misinterpreted, or structurally disqualified.
Hermeneutical Injustice ↗
Harm caused when people lack the language or framework to make sense of their experience.
Translation Tax ↗
The emotional and cognitive labor required to translate inner experience into clinically legible language.
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For the broader living lexicon, including HAIR, RCA, and new terms as they emerge, visit words.hair ↗.