Young Children's Indiscriminate Helping Behavior Toward a Humanoid Robot.

ABSTRACT: Young children help others in a range of situations, relatively indiscriminate of the characteristics of those they help. Recent results have suggested that young children's helping behavior extends even to humanoid robots. However, it has been unclear how characteristics of robots would influence children's helping behavior. Considering previous findings suggesting that certain robot features influence adults' perception of and their behavior toward robots, the question arises of whether young children's behavior and perception would follow the same principles. The current study investigated whether two key characteristics of a humanoid robot (animate autonomy and friendly expressiveness) would affect children's instrumental helping behavior and their perception of the robot as an animate

SUBMITTER: Martin DU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7047927 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature