Having robots interact with each other and with humans requires some form of social intelligence, and there is still a lot to learn about this aspect by doing experiments and by studying aspects related to the intelligence of living organisms. This paper describes various projects underway at the Université de Sherbrooke in regard to this research area.

and appreciation of the underlying mental processes. It is also the case that some of the most relevant problems encountered by primates possess both a social and an ecological dimension, which are often intrinsically entangled. For example, avoiding predation depends on an individual's ability to predict a predator's behaviour as well as on its social skills in gaining the anti-predator benefi...

Two studies found positive relationships between the ability to manage emotions and the quality of social interactions, supporting the predictive and incremental validity of an ability measure of emotional intelligence, the MSCEIT (Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, 2002). In a sample of 118 American college students (Study 1), higher scores on the managing emotions subscale of t...

background: current study is aimed on researching the relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance in employees of mashhad university of medical sciences in 2011-2012. methods:this is a descriptive correlational study. subjects were 200 employees of mashhad university of medical sciences, multi-stage cluster method was used for sampling. data gathering methods were bar-on emo...

The hypothesis that the enlarged brain size of the primates was selected for by social, rather than purely ecological, factors has been strongly influential in studies of primate cognition and behaviour over the past two decades. However, the Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis, also known as the social brain hypothesis, tends to emphasize certain traits and behaviours, like exploitation and ...

Human cognitive abilities are extraordinary. Our large brains are significantly modified from those of our closest relatives, suggesting a history of intense natural selection. The conditions favoring the evolution of human cognitive adaptations, however, remain an enigma. Hypotheses based on traditional ecological demands, such as hunting or climatic variability, have not provided satisfying e...