Juniorprofessor Merle Fairhurst

2025

• Editorial: Interpersonal synchrony and network dynamics in social interaction, volume IIMüller, V., Fairhurst, M. T., van Vugt, F. T. & Keller, P. E., 2025, In: Frontiers in human neuroscience. 19, 1667942Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Editorial (Lead article)
• Legal Requirements, Trust Issues and Engineering Challenges - A Multi-disciplinary Case for User-Specific ExplainabilityFairhurst, M., Kaesling, K. & Klös, V., 2025, Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Third World Conference xAI 2025. Guidotti, R., Schmid, U. & Longo, L. (eds.).p. 354-377Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
• The power of touch: How can social touch impact the trust, body representation and exercise performance of patients in a wearable physiotherapy assistant?Visentin, N., Fairhurst, M., Sun, W., Niu, X., Floessel, P., Wunderlich, F. C., Lüneburg, L. & 7 others, 2025, In: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 28, p. 348-358, 11 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2024

• Correction to: Propensity to trust shapes perceptions of comforting touch between trustworthy human and robot partners (Scientific Reports, (2024), 14, 1, (6747), 10.1038/s41598-024-57582-1)Valori, I., Fan, Y., Jung, M. M. & Fairhurst, M. T., Dec 2024, In: Scientific reports. Vol. 14. p. 10203Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to specialist publication > Corrections (errata and retractions)
• Multisensory experiences of affective touch in virtual reality enhance engagement, body ownership, pleasantness, and arousal modulationSun, W., Banakou, D., Świdrak, J., Valori, I., Slater, M. & Fairhurst, M. T., Dec 2024, In: Virtual Reality. 28, 4, 162Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
• The space between us: The effect of perceived threat on discomfort distance and perceived pleasantness of interpersonal vicarious touchAbra, Y., Mirams, L. & Fairhurst, M. T., 30 Aug 2024, In: Heliyon. 10, 16, e36487Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
• Choice enhances touch pleasantnessGorman, L., Sun, W., Mathew, J., Rezazadeh, Z., Sulik, J., Fairhurst, M. & Deroy, O., 10 Jun 2024, In: Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. 86 (2024), 5, p. 1709-1723, 15 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
• Corrigendum to “Genetic variability in the oxytocin system is linked to individual differences in cuddliness among human infants”, [Psychoneuroendocrinology, vol. 159, January 2024, 106419] (Psychoneuroendocrinology (2024) 159, (S0306453023003979), (10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106419))Grossmann, T. & Fairhurst, M. T., Jun 2024, In: Psychoneuroendocrinology. Vol. 164. p. 107025Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to specialist publication > Corrections (errata and retractions)
• Propensity to trust shapes perceptions of comforting touch between trustworthy human and robot partnersValori, I., Fan, Y., Jung, M. M. & Fairhurst, M., 21 Mar 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 1, 6747Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
• Genetic variability in the oxytocin system is linked to individual differences in cuddliness among human infantsGrossmann, T. & Fairhurst, M., Jan 2024, In: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 159, 106419Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article