ArticleiScience2024
Beyond human-likeness: Socialness is more influential when attributing mental states to robots.
Article in iScience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Online HD-tRNS Over the Right Temporoparietal Junction Modulates Social Inference But Not Motor Coordination.eNeuro · 2025Trial
- Multivariate Timing and Granger Causality Analysis of Spontaneous Facial Mimicry in Response to Android Dynamic Facial Expressions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers.International journal of social robotics · 2025Article
- Individual abilities to estimate levels of movement synchrony predict action observation network activation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- People with Autism Spectrum Disorder Could Interact More Easily with a Robot than with a Human: Reasons and Limits.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
We sought to replicate and expand previous work showing that the more human-like a robot appears, the more willing people are to attribute mind-like capabilities and socially engage with it. Forty-two participants played games against a human, a humanoid robot, a mechanoid robot, and a computer algorithm while undergoing functional neuroimaging. We confirmed that the more human-like the agent, the more participants attributed a mind to them. However, exploratory analyses revealed that the perceived
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