The increasing presence of robots in our society raises questions about how these objects
are perceived by users. Individuals seem inclined to attribute human capabilities to robots, a …

Highlights•People tend to ascribe agency to embodied AI.•Only humans trigger the
attribution of both agency and experience.•People are most likely to attribute mind to AI that …

The relationship between artificial entities' human likeness and aesthetic preference is
thought to be best modelled by an N-shaped cubic “uncanny valley” function, which however …

Previous studies reveal the limited effectiveness of benefit-based and hedonic-based
product recommendations provided by online recommenders, and recommender …

Objective Uncanniness plays a vital role in interactions with humans and artificial agents.
Previous studies have shown that uncanniness is caused by a higher sensitivity to deviation …

In the present work, we explored whether (and when) people cognitively process humanoid
robot faces similarly to human faces, ie, whether they cognitively anthropomorphize them. To …

This article investigates the attribution of mental state (AMS) to an anthropomorphic robot by
humans in a strategic interaction. We conducted an experiment in which human subjects are …

While thinking aloud has been reported to positively affect problem-solving, the effects of the
presence of an embodied entity (eg, a social robot) to whom words can be directed remain …

The shape and texture of humans and humanoid robots provide perceptual information that
help us to appropriately categorise these stimuli. However, it remains unclear which features …

Large Language Models based on transformer algorithms have revolutionized Artificial
Intelligence by enabling verbal interaction with machines akin to human conversation …