The social companionship (SC) feature in conversational agents (CAs) enables the emotional bond and consumer relationships. The heightened interest in SC with CAs led to …
Intelligent AI devices have become a common presence in the business landscape, offering a wide range of services, from the medical sector to the hospitality industry. From an …
ML Smith, N Asada, RC Malenka - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Empathy, the adoption of another's sensory and emotional state, plays a critical role in social interactions. Although, historically, empathy was often considered to be …
As conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rather than mere assistants. Our study …
Teachers' social-emotional competence has received increasing attention in educational psychology for about a decade and has been suggested to be an important prerequisite for …
B Jurek, ID Neumann - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
The many facets of the oxytocin (OXT) system of the brain and periphery elicited nearly 25,000 publications since 1930 (see, as listed in PubMed), which revealed central roles for …
Social interactions can trigger emotional contagion between individuals resulting in behavioral synchrony. Emotional contagion can be a very effective and attractive strategy in …
E Weisz, M Cikara - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Empathy is an integral part of socioemotional well-being, but recent research has highlighted some of its downsides. Here we examine literature that establishes when, how …
Recent research on empathy in humans and other mammals seeks to dissociate emotional and cognitive empathy. These forms, however, remain interconnected in evolution, across …