Loved & Lost

Anti-love biotechnology: was it not better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?

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Repressive coping, emotional adjustment, and cognition in people who have lost loved ones to suicide.

Research indicates that a repressive coping style is psychologically protective against the stress of trauma, yet it is unclear whether this finding generalizes to suicide bereavement. Thus, we assessed cognitive ability and mental health among individuals who lost a loved one to suicide. The results indicate that repressive coping may be associated with greater emotional health during suicide ...

If you wanna be loved

We enjoyed reading Jordan Raff’s My word article [1], in which he expressed dismay at the lack of interest the British public take in science and contrasted this with his experiences in the US. He also indicated that local politicians and school children did not visit scientific institutions in the UK and that his colleagues were less than enthusiastic when confronted with the idea that such vi...

The Chatbot Who Loved Me

The paper describes the BotCom complex embedded conversational agent system, which is accessible over the Internet and capable of high quality natural language processing as well as sophisticated manipulation of emotions. It relies on an extension of Plutchik’s emotional model. Experimental cases leading to useful constraints for optimization are discussed. BotCom, a prototype for a robust comm...

Be Loved, Be Prey, Be Eaten