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. 2023 Apr 5:46:e41.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22001698.

Anthropomorphism, not depiction, explains interaction with social robots

Dawson Petersen  1 , Amit Almor  2
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Anthropomorphism, not depiction, explains interaction with social robots

Dawson Petersen et al. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

We question the role given to depiction in Clark and Fischer's account of interaction with social robots. Specifically, we argue that positing a unique cognitive process for handling depiction is evolutionarily implausible and empirically redundant because the phenomena it is intended to explain are not limited to depictive contexts and are better explained by reference to more general cognitive processes.

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  • On depicting social agents.
    Clark HH, Fischer K. Clark HH, et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2023 Apr 5;46:e51. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22002825. Behav Brain Sci. 2023. PMID: 37017069

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