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Safety, consent, and red-flag recognition — community framework
Our safety items draw from community-standard consent frameworks (enthusiastic consent, revocability, coercion-spectrum). Not a single validated scale; aggregated from healthy-relationship curricula.
Citation
PsiMatch Product & Research Team (synthesizing consent education curricula) (2026). PsiMatch Methodology
Read methodology4 min · Updated 2026-08-27
Educational context only, not a diagnosis or clinical assessment. Product-authored items are labeled where validated instruments do not apply.
§ 01 — Findings
What the study found
- Enthusiastic consent is the community-standard baseline for healthy physical intimacy.
- Coercion-spectrum markers (guilt induction, surveillance, contempt, stonewalling) are red flags across healthy-relationship curricula.
- Items are authored to surface low-tolerance orientation without pathologizing ambivalence in novel situations.
§ 02 — Encoding
How we encode it
- Why manipulation items are routed to honesty_humility with inverted scoring — high score = low manipulation = safer partner.
- Why we surface a "red flags recognized" orientation rather than a "you are safe" score.