The science of emotion.
Stuff about emotions and emotion research. Sometimes it is about my own work, sometimes about work of others, or particular events, such as conferences.
The illusion of the neutral observer
A guest lecture triggers my memory of one of my first publications from 1991 - The illusion of the neutral observer. In an early stage this touches on topics that would come back many times - the social nature of emotions; the way how we might not just receive information from other people, but might be affected by them and their emotional displays; the limitations of trying to understand psychological processes only within the individual
Chatting without ChatGPT
Time flies, here is a paper that is 10 years old about studies with a conversational agent in the role of a barkeeper playing out different social scenarios