I, robot: depression plays different roles in human-human and human-robot interactions.

ABSTRACT: Socially engaging robots have been increasingly applied to alleviate depressive symptoms and to improve the quality of social life among different populations. Seeing that depression negatively influences social reward processing in everyday interaction, we investigate this influence during simulated interactions with humans or robots. In this study, 35 participants with mild depression and 35 controls (all from nonclinical populations) finished the social incentive delay task with event-related potential recording, in which they received performance feedback from other persons or from a robot. Compared to the controls, the mild depressive symptom (MDS) group represented abnormalities of social reward processing in the human feedback condition: first, the MDS group showed a lower hit rate

SUBMITTER: Zhang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8380250 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature