As the global population rapidly ages with longer life expectancy and declining birth rates, the need for healthcare services and caregivers for older adults is increasing. Current research envisions ...
Bowers et al. express skepticism about deep neural networks (DNNs) as models of human vision due to DNNs' failures to account for results from psychological research. We argue that to fairly assess DN...
Natural selection has been documented in contemporary humans, but little is known about the mechanisms behind it. We test for natural selection through the association between 33 polygenic scores and ...
For decades, budding yeast, a single-cellular eukaryote, has provided remarkable insights into human biology. Yeast and humans share several thousand genes despite morphological and cellular differenc...
Humans can easily perform various types of hugs in human contact and affection experience. With the prevalence of robots in social applications, they would be expected to possess the capability of hug...
Although other co-viral infections could also be considered influencing factors, cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the main cause of cervical cancer. Metagenomics have been employed in ...
In this editorial, the editors briefly introduce the aims of the Special Issue. If the goal of the scientific field of Cognitive Psychology is to improve our understanding of human cognition, then res...
Pleasant touching is an important aspect of social interactions that is widely used as a caregiving technique. To address the problems resulting from a lack of available human caregivers, previous res...
Critical illness and the intensive care unit can be a terrifying experience to patients and relatives and they may experience the extreme life-saving measures as dehumanizing. Humanizing intensive car...
To explore what contributes to patients' and relatives' experience of intensive care as humanized or dehumanized....
Thematic synthesis....
Findings from 15 qualitative papers describing patients' and/or relatives' perceptions of humanizing or dehumanizing care....
A systematic literature search of PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus and EMBASE from 1 January 1999 to 20 August 2022 identified 16 qualitative, empirical papers describing patients' and relatives' experiences of...
Intensive care was humanized when patients felt connected with healthcare professionals, with themselves by experiencing safety and well-being and with their loved ones. Intensive care was humanized t...
Patients and relatives experienced intensive care as humanized when healthcare professionals expressed genuine attention and supported them through their caring actions and when healthcare professiona...
No patient and public contribution....
Human-human interactions (HHI) and human-robot interactions (HRI) are compared to identify differences between cognitive processes reflecting bonding in social interactions with natural and artificial...
