Seeing Minds in Others - Can Agents with Robotic Appearance Have Human-Like Preferences?

ABSTRACT: Ascribing mental states to non-human agents has been shown to increase their likeability and lead to better joint-task performance in human-robot interaction (HRI). However, it is currently unclear what physical features non-human agents need to possess in order to trigger mind attribution and whether different aspects of having a mind (e.g., feeling pain, being able to move) need different levels of human-likeness before they are readily ascribed to non-human agents. The current study addresses this issue by modeling how increasing the degree of human-like appearance (on a spectrum from mechanistic to humanoid to human) changes the likelihood by which mind is attributed towards non-human agents. We also test whether different internal states (e.g., being hungry, being alive) need differen

SUBMITTER: Martini MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4706415 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature