A Living Record of the Polyvagal Controversy

Produced by Hearth Science, whose own proposed resolution is listed under Proposed Resolutions. Editorial standards

Last updated November 12, 2026 · v0.1

Proposed resolutions

Proposals held to the same standard

A proposed resolution claims to resolve some or all of the disputes in the Record. It is listed here as a proposal, not as a finding of the record.

Each proposal's testable claims enter the Record's testing framework on the same terms as every other claim.

Criteria for listing

Three conditions

  1. 01The proposal is publicly available, as a preprint or a published paper.
  2. 02It states which disputes in the Record it addresses.
  3. 03It states its testable claims, which are listed in the Record beside every other claim.

Listed proposals

Preprint · PsyArXiv · v1.2

Breaking the Stasis in the Polyvagal Controversy

Natureza Gabriel Kram and Heather L. MacDuffie

Disclosure: authored by the producer of this record.

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