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. 2023 Apr 5:46:e28.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22001534.

People treat social robots as real social agents

Alexander Eng  1 , Yam Kai Chi  1 , Kurt Gray  2
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People treat social robots as real social agents

Alexander Eng et al. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

When people interact with social robots, they treat them as real social agents. How people depict robots is fun to consider, but when people are confronted with embodied entities that move and talk - whether humans or robots - they interact with them as authentic social agents with minds, and not as mere representations.

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    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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