In A Nutshell In short, people felt unexpectedly close to AI chat partners during emotionally personal first conversations.

A study finds an AI emotional connection can feel deeper than human chat in fast, personal exchanges, especially when users think it’s a person. When labeled AI, closeness and effort drop.

Ever feel like you love someone with all your heart, but you're somehow living on different planets? It’s that weird, hollow ...

People struggle when their emotional availability feels conscripted into a system of hyper-vigilance. One of the partners tracks emotional data the way an anxious nervous system tracks threats, and, ...

You might have experienced this before, where you meet a person and you feel a deep emotional connection to them. You don't even have to feel physically attracted to them to feel it, and you might be ...

For more than four decades, Kathleen O'Brien, PhD, has shaped how communities understand and support children's emotional ...

Most people are familiar with the emotional presence of dogs and cats in a household. Living with them makes it clear that ...