cbrowser 16.15.4 → 16.15.5

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  ## Cognitive User Simulation
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- CBrowser models 25 research-backed cognitive traits to simulate how real users think and behave:
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+ CBrowser models **25 research-backed cognitive traits** across 6 tiers to simulate how real users think and behave:
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  | Trait | Research Basis | What It Models |
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- | **Patience** | | How quickly users abandon on friction |
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- | **Frustration** | | Accumulates with errors, decays with success |
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- | **Decision Fatigue** | Baumeister et al. (1998)* | Users start choosing defaults after too many decisions |
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- | **Dual-Process Thinking** | Kahneman (2011) | System 1 (fast/automatic) vs System 2 (slow/deliberate) |
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+ | **Patience** | Nah (2004); Nielsen (1993) | Tolerance for delays; abandonment at 8+ seconds |
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+ | **Working Memory** | Miller (1956) | 7±2 item capacity; affects form complexity tolerance |
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+ | **Comprehension** | Card, Moran & Newell (1983) | UI convention understanding; GOMS model timing |
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+ | **Risk Tolerance** | Kahneman & Tversky (1979) | Prospect theory; loss aversion affects CTA clicks |
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  | **Self-Efficacy** | Bandura (1977) | Belief in ability to solve problems; low = faster abandonment |
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- | **Satisficing** | Simon (1956) | Accept "good enough" vs. optimize; satisficers decide 50% faster |
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- | **Trust Calibration** | Fogg (2003) | Baseline trust affects click-through by 40% |
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- | **Interrupt Recovery** | Mark et al. (2005) | Average recovery time 23min; models context preservation |
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+ | **Satisficing** | Simon (1956) | Accept "good enough" vs. optimize; 50% faster decisions |
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+ | **Trust Calibration** | Fogg (2003) | 8 trust signals; affects click-through by 40% |
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+ | **Information Foraging** | Pirolli & Card (1999) | "Scent" following behavior; predicts navigation patterns |
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+ | **Social Proof** | Cialdini (2001) | Influence of reviews, ratings, popularity indicators |
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+ | **FOMO** | Przybylski et al. (2013) | Fear of missing out; urgency and scarcity responses |
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- *\*Note: Ego depletion research has faced [replication challenges](https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616652873). CBrowser uses a simplified decision fatigue model focused on observable choice patterns.*
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+ *See [Trait Index](https://github.com/alexandriashai/cbrowser/wiki/Trait-Index) for all 25 traits including: Persistence, Resilience, Curiosity, Change Blindness, Anchoring Bias, Time Horizon, Attribution Style, Metacognitive Planning, Procedural Fluency, Transfer Learning, Authority Sensitivity, Emotional Contagion, Mental Model Rigidity, Interrupt Recovery, and Reading Tendency.*
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+ > **Note:** Trait correlation values are [educated estimates](https://github.com/alexandriashai/cbrowser/wiki/Research-Methodology#validation-status) derived from related research. Empirical calibration planned per [GitHub #95](https://github.com/alexandriashai/cbrowser/issues/95).
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  **Full documentation:** [Research Methodology](https://github.com/alexandriashai/cbrowser/wiki/Research-Methodology) · [Trait Index](https://github.com/alexandriashai/cbrowser/wiki/Trait-Index) · [Bibliography](https://github.com/alexandriashai/cbrowser/wiki/Bibliography)
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  {
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  "name": "cbrowser",
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- "version": "16.15.4",
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+ "version": "16.15.5",
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  "type": "module",
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  "description": "Cognitive browser automation that thinks like your users—and helps AI agents navigate too. Simulate real user cognition with abandonment detection, constitutional safety, chaos engineering, and UX friction discovery. Sites that pass CBrowser's cognitive tests are easier for both humans and AI agents to navigate.",
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  "main": "dist/index.js",