Moral psychology was shaped around three categories of agents and patients: humans, other animals, and supernatural beings. Rapid progress in artificial intelligence has …
As conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rather than mere assistants. Our study …
This paper examines how users of anthropomorphised artificially intelligent (AI) agents, which possess capabilities to mimic humanlike behaviour, relate psychologically to such …
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can benefit society, but it is also fraught with risks. Societal adoption of AI is recognized to depend on stakeholder trust in AI, yet the literature on trust in AI is …
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown rapidly in the service industry and AI's emotional capabilities have become an important feature for interacting with customers. The …
The growing interest in social robotics makes it relevant to examine the potential of robots as persuasive agents and, more specifically, to examine how robot characteristics influence the …
Robots such as information security and overtrust in them are gaining increasing relevance. This research aims at giving an insight into how trust toward robots could be exploited for the …
Across three experiments (N= 302), we explored whether people cognitively elaborate humanoid robots as human-or object-like. In doing so, we relied on the inversion paradigm …
D Hostettler, S Mayer, C Hildebrand - International Journal of Social …, 2023 - Springer
The number of industrial robots and collaborative robots on manufacturing shopfloors has been rapidly increasing over the past decades. However, research on industrial robot …