The Cooperative Human Partnership Framework (CHPF): A Unified Systems Model of Attachment, Trust, Intimacy, Conflict, Repair, and Mutual Flourishing

The Cooperative Human Partnership Framework (CHPF) is a multidisciplinary, systems-level research programme designed to investigate the processes through which intimate human partnerships form, develop, flourish, deteriorate, repair, or dissolve. The framework integrates relationship science, psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology and anthropology, sociology, public health, philosophy, ethics, causal inference, statistics, mathematics, and complex systems science within a unified and explicitly falsifiable architecture. This dataset contains research materials supporting the development of CHPF, including its conceptual architecture, ontological and epistemological foundations, proposed constructs, systems-level relationships, mathematical modelling programme, competing theoretical models, measurement considerations, causal-inference strategy, predictions, falsification criteria, ethical safeguards, and proposed empirical research agenda. CHPF examines constructive partnership processes including attachment, trust, honesty, intimacy, consent, autonomy, reciprocity, commitment, communication, caregiving, accountability, repair, resilience, and mutual flourishing. It also examines processes associated with relational dysfunction and preventable harm, including destructive conflict, deception, betrayal, infidelity, coercion, objectification, commitment violations, intimate partner violence, failures of accountability, and relationship dissolution. The framework does not assume that relationship longevity constitutes success, that separation constitutes failure, that one relationship structure is universally optimal, or that biological or psychological differences establish hierarchy or unequal human worth. Instead, CHPF treats partners as autonomous persons embedded within interacting biological, psychological, interpersonal, familial, cultural, socioeconomic, and environmental systems. The proposed mathematical architecture conceptualises partnership as a dynamic dyadic system involving individual state variables, reciprocal interactions, environmental perturbations, feedback processes, resilience, path dependence, uncertainty, and potentially multiple stable or unstable relational states. Candidate approaches include dynamical systems modelling, multi-objective and Pareto optimisation, game-theoretic comparison, Bayesian modelling, longitudinal dyadic analysis, and causal inference. Mathematical formalisation remains conditional upon valid construct definition, measurement, identifiability, empirical support, and falsifiability. CHPF is explicitly corrigible. Its propositions are intended to be tested against existing and competing theoretical models, longitudinal and cross-cultural evidence, intervention studies, measurement validity, and formal discriminating predictions. Components of the framework are to be revised or rejected where stronger empirical evidence or superior explanatory models require it. The overarching objective is not to prescribe a single model of human intimacy, but to develop a rigorous scientific architecture for investigating the conditions under which autonomous individuals can form safe, honest, reciprocal, cooperative, and mutually flourishing partnerships while reducing preventable relational harm. Framework status: This record represents developmental research material associated with an ongoing theoretical framework. It should not be interpreted as the final peer-reviewed CHPF manuscript or as evidence that the framework's proposed mechanisms have already been empirically validated.