The Consciousness Compass

The Consciousness Compass Edited by GPT 4. Illustrated by MidJourney. What does this mean? See Afterword below. What the hell is ‘a common denominator of consciousness’”? you ask me. We’re in a café in the city on a rainy day. You’ve just opened my new paper on your laptop, recently published in the peer-reviewed Nature Portfolio journal Biology […]
Sociopathic Superintelligences, Artificial Empathy, and Robot Bodhisattvas, Oh My!

Get The Article PDF Paywalled Chapter Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy at Science Robotics Cite This Work APA MLA Chicago Harvard Vancouver Christov-Moore, L., Reggente, N., Vaccaro, A., Schoeller, F., Pluimer, B., Douglas, P. K., Iacoboni, M., Man, K., Damasio, A., & Kaplan, J. T. (2023). Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial […]
Interoceptive Technologies for Psychiatric Interventions: A Comprehensive Review

Get The Article Article PDF ScienceDirect Article Interoceptive Technologies for Psychiatric Interventions: A Comprehensive Review Cite This Work APA MLA Bibtex Schoeller, F., Horowitz, A. H., Jain, A., Maes, P., Reggente, N., Christov-Moore, L., . . . Friston, K. J. (2024). Interoceptive technologies for psychiatric interventions: From diagnosis to clinical applications. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 156, 105478. […]
Aesthetic Chills and Self-Transcendence: Another step toward the democratization of mystical experience

Get The Article Article PDF Political Psychology Article Self-transcendence accompanies aesthetic chills Cite This Work APA MLA Bibtex Christov-Moore, L., Schoeller, F., Lynch, C., Sacchet, M., & Reggente, N. (2024). Self-transcendence accompanies aesthetic chills. PLOS Mental Health, 1(5), e0000125. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000125 Christov-Moore, Leonardo, et al. “Self-transcendence accompanies aesthetic chills.” PLOS Mental Health, vol. 1, no. 5, Oct. 2024, p. […]
Chills Improve Reward Learning in Anhedonic Depression

Get The Article Article PDF Political Psychology Article Aesthetic chills modulate reward learning in anhedonic depression Cite This Work APA MLA Bibtex Jain, A., Schoeller, F., Esfand, S., Duda, J., Null, K., Reggente, N., Pizzagalli, D. A., & Maes, P. (2024). Aesthetic chills modulate reward learning in Anhedonic depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 370, 9–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.10.038 Jain, […]
Can Aesthetic Chills Make Us More Generous? A Dictator Game Study

For one of our recent studies, we brought participants to the lab where they were presented with a series of auditory stimuli proven to cause chills in over 2/3 of the population while we recorded their neural and physiological data. Participants then completed tasks examining their post-intervention feelings, perspective-taking, and reactions to moral dilemmas, as well […]