Stephen Porges

Stephen W. Porges (born 1945) is an American psychologist. He is the Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[1] Porges is currently the Director of the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at Indiana University Bloomington,^[2] which studies trauma.

Stephen Porges
Born	Stephen W. Porges 1945 (age 79–80) New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Drew University (BA) Michigan State University (MA, PhD)
Known for	Polyvagal theory
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	Indiana University, University of North Carolina

He was previously a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he was director of the Brain-Body Center at the College of Medicine, and at the University of Maryland.^{[citation needed]}

He proposed the still-unproven polyvagal theory in 1994, which is not endorsed by current social neuroscience.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Porges is currently a psychologist with interests in cranial nerve responses, particularly as they relate to both humans and animals.

Personal life

He is married to scientist C. Sue Carter,^[9] and has two children: Eric Carter Porges and Seth Porges. Porges received a Bachelor of Arts from Drew University in Psychology. Later, Porges received a Master of Arts and PhD in Psychology from Michigan State University.^[10][11]