This article reviews methods to investigate joint attention and highlights the benefits of new methodological approaches that make use of the most recent technological developments, such as humanoid robots for studying social cognition. After reviewi...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
Social interaction is an extremely complex yet vital component in daily life. We present a bottom-up approach for the emergence of social behaviours from the interaction of the curiosity drive, i.e. the intrinsic motivation to learn as much as possib...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
Imagined contact (IC), that is, mentally simulating an interaction with an outgroup member, reduces negative attitudes towards outgroup members, increases contact intentions, and reduces intergroup anxiety in human-human intergroup context. Our exper...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
This opinion paper discusses how human-robot interaction (HRI) methodologies can be robustly developed by drawing on insights from fields outside of HRI that explore human-other interactions. The paper presents a framework that draws parallels betwee...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
Initiating joint attention by leading someone's gaze is a rewarding experience which facilitates social interaction. Here, we investigate this experience of leading an agent's gaze while applying a more realistic paradigm than traditional screen-base...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
In social interactions, we rely on non-verbal cues like gaze direction to understand the behaviour of others. How we react to these cues is determined by the degree to which we believe that they originate from an entity with a mind capable of having ...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
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 of empathy, a core component of social relationships, towards ro...