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empathy

Popular Science “Can we make ourselves more empathetic?”

April 6, 2021 by

This piece looks back 100 years into Popular Science’s archives to a story that covered the first experiments with electricity used to measure human emotions. We’ve come a long way, but polygraphs and other emotional sensors are still imperfect after a century of practice. Can we make ourselves more empathetic? 100 years of research still […]

Filed Under: Articles & Essays, News & Events Tagged With: artificial intelligence, EKG, emotion, empathy, polygraph, sensors

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