The Doors of Social Robot Perception: The Influence of Implicit Self-theories

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dc.contributor.authorAllan, Dwain
dc.contributor.authorVonasch, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorBartneck, Christoph
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-03T04:43:33Z
dc.date.available2021-06-03T04:43:33Z
dc.date.issued2021en
dc.date.updated2021-06-01T23:16:59Z
dc.description.abstractUnderstanding people’s perceptions and inferences about social robots and, thus, their responses toward them, constitutes one of the most pervasive research themes in the field of Human–Robot interaction today. We herein augment and extend this line of work by investigating, for the first time, the novel proposition that one’s implicit self-theory orientation (underlying beliefs about the malleability of self-attributes, such as one’s intelligence), can influence one’s perceptions of emerging social robots developed for everyday use. We show that those who view self-attributes as fixed (entity theorists) express greater robot anxiety than those who view self-attributes as malleable (incremental theorists). This result holds even when controlling for well-known covariate influences, like prior robot experience, media exposure to science fiction, technology commitment, and certain demographic factors. However, only marginal effects were obtained for both attitudinal and intentional robot acceptance, respectively. In addition, we show that incremental theorists respond more favorably to social robots, compared to entity theorists. Furthermore, we find evidence indicating that entity theorists exhibit more favorable responses to a social robot positioned as a servant. We conclude with a discussion about our findings.en
dc.identifier.citationAllan DD, Vonasch AJ, Bartneck C (2021). The Doors of Social Robot Perception: The Influence of Implicit Self-theories. International Journal of Social Robotics.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-021-00767-9
dc.identifier.issn1875-4791
dc.identifier.issn1875-4805
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/101975
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLCen
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectImplicit self-theoriesen
dc.subjectMindseten
dc.subjectHuman–Robot interactionen
dc.subjectSocial Robotsen
dc.subjectRobot anxietyen
dc.subject.anzsrc0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processingen
dc.subject.anzsrc0915 Interdisciplinary Engineeringen
dc.subject.anzsrc2002 Cultural Studiesen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::46 - Information and computing sciences::4608 - Human-centred computing::460806 - Human-computer interactionen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::46 - Information and computing sciences::4602 - Artificial intelligence::460205 - Intelligent roboticsen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::46 - Information and computing sciences::4602 - Artificial intelligence::460202 - Autonomous agents and multiagent systemsen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::52 - Psychology::5205 - Social and personality psychology::520505 - Social psychologyen
dc.titleThe Doors of Social Robot Perception: The Influence of Implicit Self-theoriesen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
person.identifier.orcidAllan, Dwain (0000-0001-9859-7033);
uc.collegeFaculty of Engineering
uc.departmentHuman Interface Technology Laboratory
uc.departmentPsychology
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