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Replication Dataset for “The Protected Legal Gap: A Computational Theory of Freedom, Repeated Self-Interest, and Other-Dependent Decision-Making” Osuke Doijiri (24913549) Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation Protected Legal Gap Legal Theory Agent-Based Modeling Other-Dependent Decision-Making Computational Law <p dir="ltr">This dataset provides the replication materials for the study <i>“The Protected Legal Gap: A Computational Theory of Freedom, Repeated Self-Interest, and Other-Dependent Decision-Making.”</i></p><p dir="ltr">The study introduces the concept of the <b>Protected Legal Gap</b>, defined as a domain in which legal intervention is deliberately limited because stronger regulation could burden a protected human activity or freedom. Using an agent-based computational framework, the study examines whether repeated exposure to such a permissive environment can produce persistent changes in <b>other-dependent decision-making</b>, even after legal constraint is restored.</p><p dir="ltr">The repository contains simulation outputs, parameter-level results, bootstrap analyses, processed environmental time series, figures, and reproducibility code. Temporal environmental variation was derived from three empirical ant collective-motion recordings and was used solely as an exogenous, non-designed input to the simulations.</p><p dir="ltr">Other-dependence is operationalized computationally using conditional mutual information between another agent's state and an agent's subsequent action, conditional on its own state and environment. The resulting depletion measure represents a change in modeled other-dependence and <b>should not be interpreted as a direct measurement of human emotion, morality, or legal behavior</b>.</p><p dir="ltr">The dataset is intended to support reproducibility, robustness testing, and further theoretical investigation of the relationship between legal permissiveness, repeated experience, and decision-making dynamics.</p> 2026-10-01T04:52:51Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.34038960.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Replication_Dataset_for_The_Protected_Legal_Gap_A_Computational_Theory_of_Freedom_Repeated_Self-Interest_and_Other-Dependent_Decision-Making_/34038960 CC BY 4.0