Artificial intelligence advances have led to robots endowed with increasingly sophisticated
social abilities. These machines speak to our innate desire to perceive social cues in the …

Given recent technological developments in robotics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality,
it is perhaps unsurprising that the arrival of emotionally expressive and reactive artificial …

Amidst the fourth industrial revolution, social robots are resolutely moving from fiction to
reality. With sophisticated artificial agents becoming ever more ubiquitous in daily life, …

Understanding the mechanisms and consequences of attributing socialness to artificial
agents has important implications for how we can use technology to lead more productive and …

To what extent can humans form social relationships with robots? In the present study, we
combined functional neuroimaging with a robot socializing intervention to probe the flexibility …

The role of empathy and perspective-taking in preventing aggressive behaviors has been
highlighted in several theoretical models. In this study, we used immersive virtual reality to …

The relationship between anger and aggression is imperfect. Based on work on the
neuroscience of anger, we predicted that anger associated with greater relative left frontal cortical …

OBJECTIVE: To examine possible retinal contributions to cortically induced phosphenes by
transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) involving the visual cortex. METHODS: Self…

The balance between activity in the left and right frontal cortex, commonly referred to as
asymmetric frontal cortical activity, has served as a proxy for an organism's motivational direction …

The bystander effect, the reduction in helping behavior in the presence of other people, has
been explained predominantly by situational influences on decision making. Diverging from …