There's More to Humanity Than Meets the Eye: Differences in Gaze Behavior Toward Women and Gynoid Robots.

ABSTRACT: Based on evolutionary psychological theories, numerous eye-tracking studies have demonstrated how people visually perceive a potential mate in order to efficiently estimate the person's mate value. Companies are currently working on sexualized robots that provide numerous human-like visual cues which foster the visual resemblance to humans. To gain more elaborated knowledge on how people react to sexualized robots compared with humans, the present study empirically investigated whether heterosexual males transfer deep-rooted evolutionary psychological processes of mate perception to human-like and machine-like sexualized robots. Moreover, we aimed to learn more about the processes of orienting responses toward human and non-human stimuli and about potential predictors of visual attention t

SUBMITTER: Szczuka JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6491769 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature