Like computers before them, social robots can be used as a fundamental research tool. Indeed, they can help us to turn our attention from putative inner modules to thinking about the flow and emergence of human intellectual powers. In so doing, much can be gained from seeking solutions to MacDorman’s person problem: how can human bodies – and perhaps robot bodies – attune to cultural norms and,...

Keywords: cooperation Crocuta crocuta group hunting intelligence primate social cognition spotted hyaena Numerous field researchers have described cooperative hunting in social carnivores, but experimental evidence of cooperative problem solving typically derives from laboratory studies of nonhuman primates. We present the first experimental evidence of cooperation in a social carnivore, the sp...

We consider the two well knownminimax and minisum single facility location problems in the plane 2 R which has been divided into two regions, 1 S and 2 S by a straight line. The two regions are measured by various norms. We focus on three special cases in which the regions 1 S and 2 S are measured by 1 l and p l norms, 1 l and block norms, two distinct block norms. Based on the properties of bl...

We consider the two well knownminimax and minisum single facility location problems in the plane 2 R which has been divided into two regions, 1 S and 2 S by a straight line. The two regions are measured by various norms. We focus on three special cases in which the regions 1 S and 2 S are measured by 1 l and p l norms, 1 l and block norms, two distinct block norms. Based on the properties of bl...

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This study tested two models of how social cognition affects the link between child adjustment and two family risk factors, maltreatment and parental psychopathology. The mediation model proposed that social cognition mediates the link between the risk factors and maladjustment. The compensation model proposed that social cognition compensates for the risk factors. Social cognitive measures wer...