The paper challenges the dominant “mirror metaphor” that defines digital human twins as faithful replicas of human behavior ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology professor has earned a prestigious National Science Foundation award to use computers to better understand human behavior and social interaction. Ifeoma Nwogu, an ...

Most people have either been told that they don't look well when they were sick, or thought that someone else looked ill at ...

We've all experienced defeat at some point – losing a game, a potential new job, a debate. Now, a new study has found that the brain may learn from losing to others, with a specific group of neurons ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Together with colleagues from the universities in Lausanne, Utrecht and Cape Town, researchers from Heinrich Heine ...

I've been teaching Psychology at the college level since 1994. Near the start of many of my classes, I ask students to raise their hand if they came to college thinking that the words "Psychology" and ...

There’s multi-hyphenates, and then there’s Dr. Cameron Parker. He’s the executive director of Student Affairs at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. He’s also an author, actor, athlete and ...

A study published in Molecular Psychiatry found that brain volume changes correlate with social behavior differences in psychiatric conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia. The ...