Publications

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

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Baptist Liefooghe, Manuel Oliveira, Luca Marie Leisten, Eline Hoogers, Henk Aarts, Ruud Hortensius (2023). Are 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). Implicit and explicit attitudes towards artificial agents: a cross-cultural comparison. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

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Luca Marie Leisten, Evelien Heyselaar, Tibor Bosse, Ruud Hortensius (2022). Children’s Reciprocity and Relationship Formation with a Robot Across Age. PsyArXiv.

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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 [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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Ann Hogenhuis, Ruud Hortensius (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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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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Sofia Seinfeld, Ruud Hortensius, Jorge Arroyo-Palacios, Guillermo Iruretagoyena, Luis E. Zapata, Beatrice de Gelder, Mel Slater, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives (2022). Domestic Violence From a Child Perspective: Impact of an Immersive Virtual Reality Experience on Men With a History of Intimate Partner Violent Behavior. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

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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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. Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Robotics.

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Ruud Hortensius, Michaela Kent, Kohinoor M. 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.

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Melike M. Fourie, Ruud Hortensius, Jean Decety (2020). Parsing the components of forgiveness: Psychological and neural mechanisms. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

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Anna Henschel, Ruud Hortensius, Emily S. Cross (2020). Social Cognition in the Age of Human–Robot Interaction. Trends in Neurosciences.

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: Biological Sciences.

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

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S. Seinfeld, J. Arroyo-Palacios, G. Iruretagoyena, R. Hortensius, L. E. Zapata, D. Borland, B. de Gelder, M. Slater, M. V. Sanchez-Vives (2018). Offenders become the victim in virtual reality: impact of changing perspective in domestic violence. Scientific Reports.

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

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Ruud Hortensius, Solène Neyret, Mel Slater, Beatrice de Gelder (2018). The relation between bystanders’ behavioral reactivity to distress and later helping behavior during a violent conflict in virtual reality. PLOS ONE.

Ruud Hortensius, Felix Hekele, Emily S. Cross (2018). The perception of emotion in artificial agents. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.

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Marta Poyo Solanas, Minye Zhan, Maarten Vaessen, Ruud Hortensius, Tahnée Engelen, Beatrice de Gelder (2018). Looking at the face and seeing the whole body. Neural basis of combined face and body expressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Nicholas J. Kelley, Ruud Hortensius, Dennis J.L.G Schutter, Eddie Harmon-Jones (2017). The relationship of approach/avoidance motivation and asymmetric frontal cortical activity: A review of studies manipulating frontal asymmetry. International Journal of Psychophysiology.

Ruud Hortensius, David Terburg, Barak Morgan, Dan J. Stein, Jack van Honk, Beatrice de Gelder (2017). The dynamic consequences of amygdala damage on threat processing in Urbach–Wiethe Disease. A commentary on Pishnamazi et al. (2016). Cortex.

Ruud Hortensius, David Terburg, Barak Morgan, Dan J. Stein, Jack van Honk, Beatrice de Gelder (2017). The Basolateral Amygdalae and Frontotemporal Network Functions for Threat Perception. eneuro.

Ruud Hortensius, Beatrice de Gelder, Dennis J. L. G. Schutter (2016). When anger dominates the mind: Increased motor corticospinal excitability in the face of threat: Direction of threat and motor corticospinal excitability. Psychophysiology.

Ruud Hortensius, Dennis J. L. G. Schutter, Beatrice de Gelder (2016). Personal distress and the influence of bystanders on responding to an emergency. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.

Ruud Hortensius, David Terburg, Barak Morgan, Dan J. Stein, Jack van Honk, Beatrice de Gelder (2016). The role of the basolateral amygdala in the perception of faces in natural contexts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Jan Van den Stock, Ruud Hortensius, Charlotte Sinke, Rainer Goebel, Beatrice de Gelder (2015). Personality traits predict brain activation and connectivity when witnessing a violent conflict. Scientific Reports.

Minye Zhan, Ruud Hortensius, Beatrice de Gelder (2015). The Body as a Tool for Anger Awareness—Differential Effects of Angry Facial and Bodily Expressions on Suppression from Awareness. PLOS ONE.

Ruud Hortensius, Jack van Honk, Beatrice de Gelder, David Terburg (2014). Trait Dominance Promotes Reflexive Staring at Masked Angry Body Postures. PLoS ONE.

Ruud Hortensius, Beatrice de Gelder (2014). The neural basis of the bystander effect — The influence of group size on neural activity when witnessing an emergency. NeuroImage.

Beatrice de Gelder, David Terburg, Barak Morgan, Ruud Hortensius, Dan J. Stein, Jack van Honk (2014). The role of human basolateral amygdala in ambiguous social threat perception. Cortex.

Tom F. Price, Ruud Hortensius, Eddie Harmon-Jones (2013). Neural and behavioral associations of manipulated determination facial expressions. Biological Psychology.

Nicholas J. Kelley, Ruud Hortensius, Eddie Harmon-Jones (2013). When Anger Leads to Rumination: Induction of Relative Right Frontal Cortical Activity With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Increases Anger-Related Rumination. Psychological Science.

Ruud Hortensius, Dennis J. L. G. Schutter, Eddie Harmon-Jones (2012). When anger leads to aggression: induction of relative left frontal cortical activity with transcranial direct current stimulation increases the anger–aggression relationship. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Beatrice de Gelder, Ruud Hortensius, Marco Tamietto (2012). Attention and awareness each influence amygdala activity for dynamic bodily expressions—a short review. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.

Dennis J.L.G. Schutter, Ruud Hortensius (2011). Brain oscillations and frequency-dependent modulation of cortical excitability. Brain Stimulation.

Dennis J.L.G. Schutter, Ruud Hortensius (2010). Retinal origin of phosphenes to transcranial alternating current stimulation. Clinical Neurophysiology.

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