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Title:
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YOU JUST REMINDED ME - I'M HUMAN!:
VIEWING OR INTERACTING WITH ROBOTS INCREASES
HUMAN CONFORMITY TO OTHER HUMANS |
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Author(s):
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Julian Welsh, Marlena Fraune, and Yanfen You |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8704-19-1 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers and Guo Chao Peng |
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Year:
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2020 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Human-Robot Interaction, Group Effects, Conformity, Anthropomorphism |
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Type:
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Full |
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First Page:
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34 |
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Last Page:
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40 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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As robots become prevalent, merely thinking of their existence may affect how people behave. When interacting with a
robot in a game with no objective answers, people conformed to the robot's answers more than to their own initial
response (Scassellati ,2018). In this paper, we examined how robots affect conformity to other humans in two studies. In
Study 1, an online survey, we primed participants (N = 113) to think of different experiences: Humans (an experience
with a human stranger), Robots (an experience with a robot), or Neutral (daily life). We measured if participants
conformed to other humans in survey answers. Results indicated that people conformed more when thinking of Humans
or Robots than of Neutral events. In Study 2, in the real world, participants (N = 21), interacted with and Agent (human,
robot) at a bake sale. Preliminary results indicated that in >90% of cases, groups of participants, rather than individuals,
approached the robot while no such effect was observed when the human was at the bake sale. The bake sale was
donation-based, and donations depended on whether the Agent was human or robot. In the human condition, participants
donated an average of 1.00 dollar to the common cause and 3.00 dollars to the less common cause. Conversely, in the
robot condition, participants donated an average of 2.00 dollars to both the more common cause, and an average of 1.00
dollar in the less common cause. The first study indicated that humans and robots have a similar effect on conformity in
humans; however the second study suggests that the effects are more complex. Because participants in Study 1 typically
imagined machinelike robots, but in Study 2 saw a humanlike robot, we recommend that future studies examine how
group effects and anthropomorphism can influence conformity in people when interacting with robots in real-world
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