At first glance, a neuroscientist and a business school might seem an odd fit. But in fact economists have been paying increasing attention to how the brain works. The problem was that while the ...

Feeling socially disconnected may lead us to lower our threshold for determining that another being is animate or alive, according to new research. "This increased sensitivity to animacy suggests that ...

Experiments reveal a dynamic process that leads to the uncanny valley, with implications for both the design of robots and for understanding how we perceive one another as humans. Androids, or robots ...