Publications



Preprints & Under Review

Ronja F. Held, Aline Moore Lorusso, Ann L.M.P. Hogenhuis, Esther S. Kluwer, Ruud Hortensius (2024). Understanding family dynamics through a neurocognitive lens. PsyArXiv. November 29. doi:10.31234/osf.io/zj7tu.

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Zsuzsa Komáromy, Aline Moore Lorusso, Reine C. van der Wal, Ruud Hortensius (2024). Revealing Attentional Biases in Conspiracy Theory Believers. PsyArXiv. March 1. doi:10.31234/osf.io/p2bgy.

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Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Fabiola Diana, Lola Cañamero, Ruud Hortensius, Mariska kret (2024). Merging sociality and robotics through an evolutionary perspective. Science Robotics

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Manuel Oliveira, Justus Brands, Judith Mashudi, Baptist Liefooghe, Ruud Hortensius (2024). Perceptions of artificial intelligence system’s aptitude to judge morality and competence amidst the rise of Chatbots. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

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Luca M. Leisten, Evelien Heyselaar, Tibor Bosse, Ruud Hortensius (2024). Children’s Reciprocity and Relationship Formation with a Robot Across Age. Technology, Mind and Behavior

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Ruud Hortensius, Eva Wiese (2023). A neurocognitive view on the depiction of social robots. Commentary on target article by Clark and Fischer. Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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Baptist Liefooghe*, Manuel Oliveira*, Luca M. Leisten, Eline Hoogers, Henk Aarts, Ruud Hortensius (2023). Faces Merely Labelled as Artificial are Trusted Less. Collabra: Psychology

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Fabiola Diana, Oscar E. Juárez-Mora, Wouter Boekel, Ruud Hortensius, Mariska E. Kret (2023). How video calls affect mimicry and trust during interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

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Fabiola Diana, Misako Kawahara, Isabella Saccardi, Ruud Hortensius, Akihiro Tanaka, Mariska Kret (2022). Implicit and explicit attitudes towards artificial agents: a cross-cultural comparison. International Journal of Social Robotics

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Ruud Hortensius, Ann Hogenhuis (2022). Domain-specific and domain-general neural network engagement during human-robot interactions. European Journal of Neuroscience

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Ilja Croijmans, Laura van Erp, Annelie Bakker, Lara Cramer, Sophie Heezen, Dana Van Mourik, Sterre Weaver, Ruud Hortensius (2022). No effect of the smell of hexanal on trust in human-robot interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics

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Ruud Hortensius*, Bishakha Chaudhury*, Martin Hoffmann, Emily S. Cross (2022). Tracking human interactions with a commercially-available robot over multiple Days: A tutorial [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]. Open Research Europe: Artificial Intelligence and the Social Sciences and Humanities

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Sofía Seinfeld, Ruud Hortensius, Jorge Arroyo-Palacios, Guillermo Iruretagoyena, Luis Zapata, Beatrice de Gelder, Mel Slater, Marie V Sanchez-Vives (2022). Immersing Offenders in a Virtual Domestic Violence Scene from a Child Perspective. Journal of Interpersonal Violence

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Ruud Hortensius*, Michaela Kent*, Kohinoor Darda, Laura Jastrzab, Kami Koldewyn, Richard Ramsey, Emily S. Cross (2021). Exploring the relationship between anthropomorphism and Theory-of-Mind in brain and behaviour. Human Brain Mapping
*joined first authorship

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Dorina de Jong, Ruud Hortensius, Te-Yi Hsieh, Emily S. Cross (2021). Empathy and schadenfreude in human-robot teams. Journal of Cognition

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Anna Henschel*, Ruud Hortensius*, Emily S. Cross (2020). Social cognition in the age of human–robot interaction. Trends in Neurosciences
*joined first authorship

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Emily S Cross*, Ruud Hortensius*, Agnieszka Wykowska* (2019). From social brains to social robots: applying neurocognitive insights to human–robot interaction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
*joined first authorship

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Emily S Cross, Katie A Riddoch, Jaydan Pratts, Simon Titone, Bishakha Chaudhury, Ruud Hortensius (2019). A neurocognitive investigation of the impact of socialising with a robot on empathy for pain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

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Ruud Hortensius*, Emily S. Cross* (2018). From automata to animate beings: The scope and limits of attributing socialness to artificial agents. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
*joined first authorship

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Ruud Hortensius, Felix Hekele, Emily S Cross (2018). The perception of emotion in artificial agents. IEEE TCDS

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Ruud Hortensius, Beatrice de Gelder (2018). From empathy to apathy: The bystander effect revisited. Current Directions in Psychological Science

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Conference Proceedings

Ronja F. Held, Aline Moore Lorusso, Ruud Hortensius (2024). Informing family-centered design through a neurocognitive approach. CHI 2024 Workshop on Methods for Family-Centered Design.

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Rosanne H. Timmerman+, Te-Yi Hsieh+, Anna Henschel*, Ruud Hortensius*, & Emily S. Cross* (2021). Individuals expend more effort to compete against robots than humans after observing competitive human-robot interactions. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Robotics
+joint first authorship *joint last authorship

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Manuals

Anna Henschel, Michaela Kent, Luca M. Leisten, Hanna Seelemeyer, Rosanne H. Timmerman, Ruud Hortensius, & Emily S. Cross (202). A manual to digitising fNIRS probes with photogrammetry as described in Clausner et. al. (2017)

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