MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511114536 A) filed by Manipal University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, on Nov. 20, 2025, for 'a system and method for modeling the cultural-relational cycle of people-pleasing behavior.'
Inventor(s) include Bhavya Shangari; and Dr. Shraddha Tripathi.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a method and system for modeling, assessing, and intervening in people-pleasing behavior in individuals from collectivist societies. The method comprises receiving a request or expectation trigger, processing it through cultural-relational evaluation of norms and relational pressures, activating anticipatory, empathic, and moral guilt, eliciting people-pleasing compliance, generating short-term and long-term emotional consequences, and reinforcing the behavior through internal and external mechanisms to create a repeatable cycle. The system comprises corresponding modules for request reception, cultural-relational processing, guilt activation, compliance detection, emotional consequence monitoring, and reinforcement tracking. The invention further includes modules for research, education, and clinical intervention, enabling systematic study, training, and targeted therapeutic strategies to break the cycle and reduce long-term psychological distress."
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