Hi everyone, I'm a software engineering student and software developer from Brazil currently conducting an independent research project about human social behavior, cognition, and conversational AI. I'm especially interested in understanding how people naturally decide when to speak, interrupt, agree, disagree, or remain silent during group conversations, and how these behaviors could eventually be modeled in AI systems. Because this topic strongly overlaps with psychology and cognitive science, I thought students and researchers from Harvard working in these areas might have valuable perspectives to share. I prepared a short document with a few questions about cognition, emotion, and social interaction. Written answers alone would already help the project significantly, and there is no further commitment involved.…