Robots Are Perceptually Dehumanized Due to Their Machine-like Appearance and Machine-like Nature
| dc.contributor.advisor | McDonald, Craig | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wiese, Eva | |
| dc.creator | Momen, Ali | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-03T20:18:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-03T20:18:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Robots that engage face-processing are better able to transmit social signals that improve human-robot interactions. However, although robots are often crafted with face-like displays, research has yet to examine whether they actually engage face-like processing. To this end, we examined across seven studies how robot’s machine-like appearance and machine-like nature modulate causes and consequences of face-processing with robots. In a first set of studies, we demonstrate that robots generally engage configural processing (study 1; causes of face perception) less strongly than human faces but do elicit configural processing when robots contain more physical facial features (studies 2) that are distinctly human (study 3). In a second set of studies, we demonstrate that, even when controlling for physical differences between humans and robots, dehumanizing stereotypes associated with robots’ machine-like nature, alone, modulates configural processing with robots (studies 4 & 5). In a final set of studies, we find that perceptual discrimination of robots (consequences of face perception) is also modulated by a robots’ machine-like physical features (study 6), but not their machine-like nature (study 7). Results are discussed in terms of theoretical and practical application for human-robot teaming. | |
| dc.format.extent | 130 pages | |
| dc.format.medium | Dissertation | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1920/12935 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Psychology | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Robotics | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Anthropomorphism | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Face Perception | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Human-Robot Interaction | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Social Robotics | |
| dc.title | Robots Are Perceptually Dehumanized Due to Their Machine-like Appearance and Machine-like Nature | |
| dc.type | Dissertation | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Psychology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | George Mason University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Ph.D. | |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. in Psychology |
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