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                                                           Image by  montrealethics.ai        Methodology Study design and participants We employed a within-subjects experimental design to evaluate our hypothesis. Undergraduate volunteers enrolled in psychology classes at a nearby university took part in the study. The sample included 29 people (17 of whom were female; M=24.6 years, SD=2.42 years). The sample size was determined based on previous research that addressed emotional reactions comprehensively and had sample sizes ranging from 14 to 41. None of the subjects had a history of neurological or neuropsychiatric disorders, and none were using psychoactive medication at the time of the study. All participants signed a written informed consent form. The study was carried out following the most recent version of the Declaration of Helsinki (October 2013) and was authorized by the local university's Ethical Review Board. Measurements Baseline measures Anxiety, motivation, and moo

                                                Image by  montrealethics.ai Introduction       Social robots are referred to as ‘relational artifacts’ because they can physically interact with real-world items and people via verbal, non-verbal, word, and feelings. With the appearance of robots able to know-how and speaking in a human-like way, robots are predicted to pervasively input our normal environments and come to be social retailers with which human beings will socially have interaction for numerous purposes, ‘from like to war’. Mental health care, in particular, is thought to be the area where robots technology will have the greatest impact shortly. Social robots have been successfully introduced in mental healthcare scenarios for a variety of purposes, including as companions for older adults, improving psychosocial outcomes, preventing cognitive decline, and increasing the effectiveness of interventions targeting children with autism spectrum disorders. Shortly, robots are ex

Introduction:  Humans are scanning and searching the whole sky in order to find any evidence of alien life. But why finding alien life is so hard and next to impossible? Why can't we find any traces of alien life forms in our home (Milky Way) galaxy? Is there any common rule which defines the possibility of extraterrestrial life? All these questions strike in our minds whenever we talk about aliens. On one side there is a high probability of the existence of alien life in the universe and on another side, we do not have any evidence to prove such high probabilities of existence. This conflict between high probability and zero evidence is termed as Fermi Paradox. The Fermi Paradox soon became a subject for hundreds of books, thousands of lectures and millions of discussions. It still remained one of the most famous paradoxes. To answer this paradox, hundreds of theories emerged. One possible answer is that the possibility for two extremely intelligent civilizations to meet each othe

Life and Earth System: It is now universally acknowledged that life has had a significant impact on the Earth's system. Vernadsky established this idea – that life is the geological force – in his landmark work "The Biosphere" many years ago. Lovelock gave a specific example of such an effect, the changing of atmospheric composition by life, concerning the exceptionally high concentration of molecular oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere, nearly four decades ago. When compared to other planetary atmospheres in the solar system, this state represents chemical disequilibrium concerning other constituents of the atmosphere. Photosynthetic activity, which accounts for the majority of life on Earth, is directly tied to the creation of molecular oxygen. Photosynthetic activity harnesses the power of sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into chemical-free energy in the form of carbohydrate and molecular oxygen, which is then released into the atmosphere. If photosynthesi