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 …

As robots advance from the pages and screens of science fiction into our homes, hospitals,
and schools, they are poised to take on increasingly social roles. Consequently, the need to …

While interactions with social robots are novel and exciting for many people, one concern is
the extent to which people's behavioural and emotional engagement might be sustained …

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

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

As social robots are increasingly introduced into health interventions, one potential area
where they might prove valuable is in supporting people's psychological health through …

There is a growing consensus that social cognition and behavior emerge from interactions
across distributed regions of the “social brain”. Researchers have traditionally focused their …

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a severe psychiatric disorder with profound public
health impact due to its high prevalence, chronic nature, accompanying functional …

Social interactions routinely lead to neural activity in a" social brain network" comprising,
among other regions, the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) and the dorsomedial prefrontal …

Both robots and humans can behave in ways that engender positive and negative
evaluations of their behaviors and associated responsibility. However, extant scholarship on …