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This Week's Discussion
Human-Android Interaction in the Near and Distant Future
Neal J. Roese and Eyal Amir
Will robots look and act exactly like us within 50 years? What are the psychological challenges for both making realistic androids and the implications for human–android interactions? Although technology for realistic movement and emotion detection is progressing rapidly, artificial intelligence will remain the main limitation to making robots completely human-like, according to a new report.
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Featured articles are from a special issue of
Perspectives on Psychological Science (Volume 4, Issue 4).
The contents of the full issue is below
Table of Contents
Volume 4, Issue 4Editor Ed Diener
Perspectives on
Psychological
Science is a journal
of the Association for
Psychological Science.
The Future of Psychology:
Connecting Mind to Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
David C. Funder
The Nature (and Nurture?) of Plasticity
in Early Human Development
Jay Belsky and Michael Pluess
The "Humpty Dumpty Problem" in the Study of Early
Cognitive Development: Putting the Infant Back Together Again
Lisa M. Oakes
How Can Evolutionary Psychology Successfully Explain
Personality and Individual Differences?
David M. Buss
Psychoneuroimmunology:
Psychology's Gateway to the Biomedical Future
Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
How to Tell If a Particular Memory Is True or False
Daniel M. Bernstein and Elizabeth F. Loftus
Can We Improve Our Physical Health by Altering Our Social Networks?
Sheldon Cohen and Denise Janicki-Deverts
How Can Decision Making Be Improved?
Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh, and Max H. Bazerman
Know Thyself
Timothy D. Wilson
Giving Debiasing Away: Can Psychological Research
on Correcting Cognitive Errors Promote Human Welfare?
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Rachel Ammirati, and Kristin Landfield
Unpacking Intuition: A Conjecture
Martin E.P. Seligman and Michael Kahana
Perspectives on Preference Aggregation
Michel Regenwetter
Mechanisms of Gene-Environment Interaction Effects in the Development of Conduct Disorder
Kenneth A. Dodge
Why Do Different Individuals Progress Along Different Life Trajectories?
Gregory T. Smith
Achieving and Sustaining a Good Life
Nansook Park and Christopher Peterson
Human-Android Interaction in the
Near and Distant Future
Neal J. Roese and Eyal Amir
What Kind of Empirical Research Should We Publish, Fund, and Reward?: A Different Perspective
Paul Rozin