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Social interaction is an evolutionary requirement for human psychological and physiological regulation.
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Multiple frameworks, including Social Baseline Theory and Polyvagal Theory, demonstrate that human psychological and physiological systems are evolutionarily adapted to operate interdependently and require social interaction for effective regulation.

Evidence for · 6
Social Baseline Theory: The Social Regulation of Risk and Effort
2014 · cited by 271
Coan and Sbarra outline Social Baseline Theory, arguing that the human brain expects access to social relationships to mitigate risk and physiological effort.
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The retrieved papers heavily support the claim. Social Baseline Theory (papers 0, 1, 2, 5) posits that the human brain and physiological systems naturally expect and incorporate social relationships to regulate effort, risk, and neural threat responses. Similarly, Polyvagal Theory (paper 4) links autonomic regulation directly to social behavior and safety detection, while developmental literature (paper 11) confirms the physiological reality of coregulation. There is no contradictory evidence in the retrieved literature.

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A Developmental Neuroscience of Borderline Pathology: Emotion Dysregulation and Social Baseline Theory
2011 · cited by 113
This paper applies Social Baseline Theory to borderline personality pathology, noting that healthy human functioning depends on adequate social support and interdependent biological systems.
Cognitive Processes Unfold in a Social Context: A Review and Extension of Social Baseline Theory
2020 · cited by 40
This review extends Social Baseline Theory by demonstrating that social context is innate to resource-dependent cognitive, neural, and physiological processes.
Polyvagal theory: a journey from physiological observation to neural innervation and clinical insight
2025 · cited by 17
Polyvagal theory provides an integrative model of autonomic regulation emphasizing the role of the ventral vagal complex in social behavior and the neural detection of safety.
Yielding to social presence as a bioenergetic strategy
2021 · cited by 6
Experimental findings demonstrate that relational partners decrease threat-related neural responses (e.g., in the prefrontal cortex and insula), illustrating social bioenergetic regulation.
The typical and atypical development of dynamic self-regulation and coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in mothers and children across early childhood.
2026 · cited by 0
Research on mother-child dyads shows that parents externally regulate young children's physiological rhythms (such as respiratory sinus arrhythmia), illustrating coregulation across early development.
Everything we examined (12)
  1. Social Baseline Theory: The Social Regulation of Risk and Effortpeer-reviewedsupports
  2. A Developmental Neuroscience of Borderline Pathology: Emotion Dysregulation and Social Baseline Theorypeer-reviewedsupports
  3. Cognitive Processes Unfold in a Social Context: A Review and Extension of Social Baseline Theorypeer-reviewedsupports
  4. Biology as Social Theory: John Scott Haldane and Physiological Regulationpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Polyvagal theory: a journey from physiological observation to neural innervation and clinical insightpeer-reviewedsupports
  6. Yielding to social presence as a bioenergetic strategypeer-reviewedsupports
  7. “Social Movement Theory” as a Baseline Legitimizing Narrative: Corporate Exploitation, Anti-Hegemonic Opposition and the Contested Academypeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Evaluation of interactive digital art healing effects based on multi modal physiological signals and generative adversarial networks (GANs): an empirical study of the neural mechanisms of emotion regulation.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Personality Theoriespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Transformer-based emotion recognition in interactive art: A multimodal neural approach.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Designing for Comfort in VR Public Speaking: How Avatar Realism and Natural Environments Shape User Experience and Stress Responses.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. The typical and atypical development of dynamic self-regulation and coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in mothers and children across early childhood.peer-reviewedsupports
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judged → SUPPORTED · 9005 Aug 2026
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