To All My Friends

To my family and friends

My father and mother My brothers and sisters My lovely son Ahmed My friends All paediatrician Our lovely children

We all need friends

We all need friends T he idea that the intestinal content can cause a number of physical and psychological ailments is very old (1). Remedies to clean the bowel were used in ancient Egypt, probably inspired by the peculiar behaviour of the ibis bird, as stated by Plinius (23Á79 A.D.): 'The bird which is called the ibis and which is a native of Egypt, by means of its hooked beak, laves the insid...

Listen to My Body: Does Making Friends Help Influence People?

We investigate the effect of relational dialogue on creating rapport and exerting social influence in human-robot conversation, by comparing interactions with and without a relational component, and with different agent types. Human participants interact with two agents – a Nao robot and a virtual human – in four dialogue scenarios: one involving building familiarity, and three involving sharin...

Theory and Patients as Friends to my Post-Election Shock