Unconscious Cognition

I, Robopsychologist, Part 2: Where Human Brains Far Surpass Computers | The Crux

9 Feb 2012

Andrea Kuszewski is a behavior therapist and consultant, science writer, and robopsychologist at Syntience in San Francisco. She is interested in creativity, intelligence, and learning, in both humans and machines. Find her on Twitter at @AndreaKuszewski . Before you read this post, please see “ I, Robopsychologist, Part 1: Why Robots Need Psychologists .� A current trend in AI research involves ...

Can you substitute physical warmth and emotional warmth?

7 Feb 2012

Yes, to a degree. And many of us do it all the time without realizing it. Ressearch shows coldness makes us feel lonely and hot baths help us feel loved.

How Emotions Jump from Face to Face

7 Feb 2012

Disability advocates were seeing red after two elderly women with medical conditions were allegedly strip-searched by TSA agents at New York’s JFK airport last December. You’d have to have a pretty thick skin not to empathize with an elderly, wheelchair-bound woman having her colostomy bag frisked. But the notion of one passenger being an unlikely terrorist also belies a discomfiting flipside ...