Our storytelling nature | BPS
Jonathan Gottschall on the Heider-Simmel experiment as an illustration of the story paradox.| BPS
Jonathan Gottschall on the Heider-Simmel experiment as an illustration of the story paradox.| BPS
Background: There are far more patients in mental distress than there is time available for mental health professionals to support them. Although digital tools may help mitigate this issue, critics have suggested that technological solutions that lack human empathy will prevent a bond or therapeutic alliance from being formed, thereby narrowing these solutions’ efficacy. Objective: We aimed to investigate whether users of a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)–based conversational agent wou...| JMIR Formative Research
Care Ethics| Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Written by MSt in Practical Ethics student Dr Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert Human beings, as a species, love to tell stories and to imagine that there are person-like agents behind events. The Ancient Greeks saw the rivers and the winds as personalised deities, placating them if they appeared ‘angry’. Psychologists in classic 1940s experiments were impressed at| Practical Ethics
