The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Clark and Fischer analyze social robots as depictions, presenting characters that people can interact with in social settings. Unlike other types of depictions, the props for social robot depictions depend on emerging interactive technologies. This ...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Following the depiction theory by Clark and Fischer we would expect people interacting with robots to experience emotions akin to those toward films or novels. However, some people's emotional reactions toward robots display the motivational force t...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Clark and Fischer argue that people see social robots as depictions of social agents. However, people's interactions with virtual assistants may change their beliefs about social robots. Children and adults with exposure to virtual assistants may vie...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Feb 17, 2023
One of our main goals with "Expression unleashed" was to highlight the distinctive, ostensive nature of human communication, and the many roles that ostension can play in human behavior and society. The commentaries we received forced us to be more p...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Feb 17, 2023
The problem of generating generally capable agents is an important frontier in artificial intelligence (AI) research. Such agents may demonstrate open-ended, versatile, and diverse modes of expression, similar to humans. We interpret the work of Hein...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Dec 1, 2022
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have had extraordinary successes in classifying photographic images of objects and are often described as the best models of biological vision. This conclusion is largely based on three sets of findings: (1) DNNs are more ...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Nov 10, 2022
What inductive biases must be incorporated into multi-agent artificial intelligence models to get them to capture high-fidelity imitation? We think very little is needed. In the right environments, both instrumental- and ritual-stance imitation can e...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Jul 7, 2022
Pietraszewski provides a compelling case that representations of certain interaction-types are the "cognitive primitives" that allow all tokens of to be represented within the mind. Here, I argue that the folk concept GROUP encodes shared intentions...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Mar 28, 2022
Social robots serve people as tutors, caretakers, receptionists, companions, and other social agents. People know that the robots are mechanical artifacts, yet they interact with them as if they were actual agents. How is this possible? The proposal ...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Feb 10, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) shares many generalizability challenges with psychology. But the fields publish differently. AI publishes fast, through rapid preprint sharing and conference publications. Psychology publishes more slowly, but creates int...