Robot autonomy in human-robot interaction
When a robot stops following our commands and starts making its own decisions, how does that change the way we feel about it — and about ourselves?
Projects
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Below you can learn about some of my completed research project. They include links to published papers and in some cases links to dashboards presenting the results
What happens when I identify with an avatar face?
When we take control of a game character, something subtle shifts in our psychology. We start to identify with that character — and that identification has m...
Cultural evolution of group identity
How does information about our social group change as it passes from person to person? And does it get subtly distorted to make our own group look better?
Neural correlates of self-associated movements
We showed full body movements to participants and asked which brain areas code them as MY versus OTHER'S movements. Our participants saw movements like this...
Communication and action predictability
When two people need to coordinate without talking, what do they do? And when they can talk, do they stop trying to be predictable?
We-representations and joint action
When two people act together, they don’t just represent their own actions — the brain builds a shared ‘we-representation’ of the joint action as a whole.
Depersonalization and self-representation
Have you ever felt like you were watching yourself from the outside — a stranger in your own body? This is called depersonalization, and it reveals something...
Morality and ethics in interaction with artificial agents
When we harm someone through a robot or a game avatar, is it still really us doing the harming? Do we feel less responsible? Are we more willing to cross mor...
Theoretical work on the self
What is the self, exactly? How does it develop? And how do its different components — the sense of being a body, the sense of having a mind, the sense of bel...