TEG-Blue·Interactive tools on .com →

Open Research

Transparent methods, credited sources, testable claims

Open Research

Transparent methods, credited sources, testable claims

ENTRY POINT

Start Here

Pattern recognition based on nervous system science

TEG-Blue is the first complete emotional technology system — an integrative architecture that synthesizes 145+ established theories into testable claims about emotional regulation. Open access, open questions, open to validation.

If you want the full system map first: System Overview →

What is original about TEG-Blue?

THE 1 + 2 = 3 PRINCIPLE

TEG-Blue doesn't invent the building blocks. Polyvagal Theory, Attachment Theory, Affective Neuroscience, developmental research — these are established. They are the "1" and the "2".

What TEG-Blue proposes is the "3" — specific connections between these established theories:

  • Nervous system regulation → moral perception
  • Attachment patterns → social stratification
  • Protection → domination as a continuous gradient
  • Linguistic complexity → regulatory capacity

The building blocks are validated science. The connections are the hypothesis.

The Regulation Thread

The clearest example of the "3": a single mechanism — regulation substitutes — runs through all 12 frameworks. When the body's natural return path is missing, something else steps in: cognition, rules, hierarchies, bias, domination. Each substitute works. Each comes at a cost. F8–F12 reverse the thread.

See the full thread →

Status snapshot

This project separates what exists from what is being tested.

Established

Many underlying theories and measures in affective science, clinical psychology, neuroscience, developmental psychology, social psychology, and linguistics.

Proposed synthesis

The full cross-framework mapping. The reversal thread across Frameworks 8–12. The architecture that connects regulation, identity adaptation, and social escalation.

Preliminary evidence

Initial studies and analyses listed in Publications.

Open to validation

Psychometric validation and replication. Construct validity across cultures, contexts, and modalities. External benchmarking against existing instruments.

Core testable claim

CORE HYPOTHESIS

Return capacity predicts relational outcomes

The key variable that predicts relational and behavioral outcomes is not a person's current regulatory state, but their capacity to return to baseline when challenged.

Operationalization: Measurable in language via complexity markers — accountability without collapse, perspective-taking, repair attempts, emotional differentiation, reduced coercion under stress.

Research need: Replication and cross-context validation. Which markers are reliable? Which are context-dependent? How do they shift across stress load, power dynamics, and attachment history?

Related frameworks: F8 (Repairing Awareness), F9 (Neurodivergence as Nervous System Variation), F10 (Rebuilding Generational Bridges).

Open research questions

These questions emerged from building the integration. I don't have answers to most of them. Some point to gaps in existing literature. Some point to claims TEG-Blue makes that need external testing. Some I couldn't find addressed anywhere — which is either a gap worth filling or a sign I looked in the wrong places.

Each can be pursued independently. If one matches your work, that's the relevant entry point.

On the biological mechanism

If Biological Restoration is a learnable capacity and not just an automatic function, what are the developmental windows during which co-regulatory experience most determines whether the return path forms?

Can the absence of a learned restoration path be distinguished from dysregulation caused by acute overwhelm using existing neurobiological markers — and if so, what would that distinction require clinically?

Does a chronically stuck compass produce different physiological signatures than a slowly returning one — and does that distinction predict different intervention needs?

On individual and clinical questions

False coherence is proposed as a cognitive regulation strategy. Does it produce measurable physiological stabilisation — and what is the cost of removing it without first building the restoration capacity it replaced?

The three awareness capacities — Reading Emotions (RE), Emotional Resonance (ER), Self-Emotional Awareness (SEA) — are proposed as developmentally distinct. Do they dissociate independently — and can high Reading Emotions (RE) and Emotional Resonance (ER) with absent Self-Emotional Awareness (SEA) be distinguished from existing clinical categories?

If mode position determines what an emotion produces — not the emotion itself — what would a mode-position assessment look like in practice, and how does it differ from existing affect regulation measures?

On development and generational transmission

The transmission mechanism proposed is specific: adult awareness configuration → child awareness configuration — not environment in the generic sense. Can this causal chain be measured with enough precision to distinguish it from broader environmental stress models?

Is there a measurable threshold of adult restoration capacity below which co-regulation cannot function as a developmental transmission mechanism, regardless of relational warmth or intention?

If what the adult embodies — not says, not intends — is the determining variable, what does intervention need to target in caregivers to change developmental outcomes in the next generation?

F2·F10

On collective scale

Is what we call emotional dysregulation at the individual level and social dysfunction at the collective level the same missing mechanism — Biological Restoration never learned — operating at different scales?

If collective rule systems, worth hierarchies, and bias all function as regulation substitutes, do they show the same escalation pattern under threat that individual compensatory strategies show — and can that escalation be interrupted at the same points?

Domination is proposed as the end state of a pathway driven by reinforcement, not personality. Does this model make predictions about which organisational and cultural conditions accelerate or interrupt that pathway — and are those predictions testable?

On AI and language systems

If the emotional-somatic system produces its output before language exists — and language belongs exclusively to the cognitive system — what does language-based AI training miss that a TEG-Blue-informed framework would need to account for?

Is emotional pattern recognition across contexts — individual, relational, institutional — sufficiently consistent to be mapped and tested in AI systems, and what would the framework need to specify for that to be possible?

Where to go from here

ToGo to
Understand the full systemSystem Overview →
See how the system is builtHow It Works →
See the applied modelsCore Models →
See the explanatory architectureFrameworks →
See the mechanics in actionMechanics →
Review evidence and methodsPublications · Methodology
Use this workCollaborate →

Contact

If any of these directions match your work, reach out with a short note — your background, which direction interests you, and what you'd want to test or critique first.

research@teg-blue.org

Anna Paretas-ArtachoIndependent researcher and systems designer, Barcelona. 25+ years in systems thinking. TEG-Blue developed over two years as an integrative architecture across 145+ established theories. Full background →