Showing posts with label social cognition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social cognition. Show all posts
Friday, July 04, 2025

Emotional synchrony among sports fans.(Will Elon Musk's android army be able to do this?)

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From Xygalatas et al :  Abstract Sporting events are powerful social phenomena that extend beyond the game itself, offering a unique lens ...
Friday, June 06, 2025

Benefits and dangers of anthropomorphic conversational agents

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Peter et al. offer an interesting open source essay. They ask: "should we lean into the human-like abilities, or should we aim to dehu...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Socially sensitive autonomous vehicles?

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Driving around in the Old West Austin neighborhood where I live I am increasingly spooked (the uncanny valley effect) at four-way stop signs...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI

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 From Reif et al. (open source) , systematic observations that confirm my own experience, Significance As AI tools become increasingly prev...
Friday, May 23, 2025

A new route towards dystopia:? Sonifying tactile interactions and their underlying emotions to allow ‘social touch.’

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Our Tech-World overlords may be using work like the following from de Lagarde et al. to find ways for us to avoid requiring the evolved su...
Friday, February 07, 2025

Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates

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I pass on the abstract of a draft version of a new article by Robin Dunbar that I am reading through. It will appear in Behavioral and Brai...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Regions of our brains making multiple predictions of others' actions.

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I want to point to an excellent review and summary by Lin and Wittmann in Trends in Neurosciences of work by Ma et al. in J.Neurosci. (both...
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Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Predictive coding for social perception

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Rittershofer et al. introduce a special issue of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews titled " Neurobiology of Social Interactions A...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Neurons in the amygdala jointly encode the status of interacting individuals

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From Lee et al.: Highlights -Monkeys infer the social status of conspecifics from videos of dyadic interactions   -During fixations, neural ...
Saturday, December 07, 2024

Battle of the Bots - AI gets creative with Brain Hacks

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This post is meant to archive my recent exercise of asking  ChatGPT 4o, Perplexity , Gemini+ advanced ,  and Anthropic  (which does not off...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Human distinctiveness and Artificial Intelligence

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I pass on some random thoughts occasioned by the previous post. What is distinctive about humans? -There are millions of humans, there can...
Friday, March 29, 2024

How communication technology has enabled the corruption of our communication and culture .

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I pass on two striking examples from today’s New York Times, with few clips of text from each: A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Cultu...
Monday, March 25, 2024

If you want to remember a landscape be sure to include a human....

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Fascinating observations by Jimenez et al.   on our inherent human drive to understand our vastly social world...(and in the same issue of P...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Explaining the evolution of gossip

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 A fascinating open source article from Pan et al. : Significance From Mesopotamian cities to industrialized nations, gossip has been at ...
Monday, May 15, 2023

People who talk too much

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I host a monthly discussion group in Austin TX, The Austin Rainbow Forum, that meets at 2 pm on the first Sunday of every month to consider ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

A.I. as a path towards mass lunacy

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MindBlog wants to be part of the passing on of this elegantly stated clip from an article by novelist, literary critic, and essayist Walte...
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Market exposure and human morality

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In the face of resurgent threats to place religion over the rest of civil society, and specious claims that we can't have a moral socie...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The Evolution of Peace

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I pass on the abstract of an article by Luke Glowacki that has been submitted to the network of Behavioral and Brain Science reviewers who m...
Monday, January 09, 2023

AI After Death: interactions with AI representations of the deceased

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 I want to pass on to MindBlog readers the following excellent notes that Terry Allard made to guide a discussion at the Nov. 29, 2022 sessi...
Monday, November 28, 2022

The Computational Society

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The most recent issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences presents a forum in its 25th Anniversary Series: Looking Forward. Several of the cont...