People increasingly interact with different types of autonomous robotic systems, ranging
from humanoid social robots to driverless vehicles. But little is known about how people …

Understanding how people attribute behavior to underlying mental states is crucial to the
study of human social interactions. Previous research has established that people rely on …

Recent studies suggest that people can interact with robots as social agents. However, it is
still unclear what mental processes people rely on when interacting with robots. One core …

People rely on shared folk-psychological theories when judging behavior. These theories
guide people's social interactions and therefore need to be taken into consideration in the …

The emergence of robots in everyday life raises the question of how people explain the
behavior of robots---in particular, whether they explain robot behavior the same way as they …

On the day by day humans need to predict and understand others' behavior in order to
efficiently navigate through our social environment. When making predictions about what …

In human-robot interactions, people tend to attribute them mental states such as
intentionality to make sense of their behaviour: the intentional stance. These inferences …

Researchers in artificial intelligence and robotics have long debated whether robots are
capable of possessing minds. We hypothesize that the mind is an abstract internal …

It is well known that people tend to anthropomorphize in interpretations and explanations of
the behavior of robots and other interactive artifacts. Scientific discussions of this …

Social robots are robots that are intended for social interaction with people. Because of the
societal benefits that they are expected to bring, social robots are likely to become more …