Somewhere in the middle are chatbot therapists like Wysa and Woebot, using AI to mimic real therapeutic conversations, often rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy. These apps typically offer free ...

Researchers at the University of College London recently undertook a massive study to better understand chimps. The team ...

A new study shows that people rate empathic responses as more supportive and emotionally satisfying when they believe they come from a human—even if the same response is AI-generated.

Scientists are racing to understand how the frequent use of large language model programs, or LLMs, is affecting our brains.

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We can't see what other people are thinking, so we have to infer it and that's very crucial for our communication as humans. That's how we create shared meaning and that's how we choose our words to ...

Israeli neurologists gave leading AI chatbots the cognitive exam used to assess U.S. presidents' mental fitness, in a study intended as a wisecrack—but it found "real flaws" in technology ...

Compassion and empathy sound like synonyms, but they're two different skill sets. Here's how and why to hone both qualities, according to psychologists.

Empathy as the Cognitive Rate-Limiting Step Empathy may be a "rate-limiting step" in human cognition, the critical factor that differentiates human intelligence from machine intelligence.