Preschoolers' and adults' animism tendencies toward a humanoid robot
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Highlights：
• Japanese three-year-old children made animism errors with regards to a humanoid robot that can talk and move.
• This tendency was no longer held after the children had a brief interaction with it.
• Japanese 5-year-old children and adults exhibited agentic animism toward the robot.
• 5-year-olds and adults understood that the robot was nonliving, but attributed living properties to it after an interaction.
摘要
•Japanese three-year-old children made animism errors with regards to a humanoid robot that can talk and move.•This tendency was no longer held after the children had a brief interaction with it.•Japanese 5-year-old children and adults exhibited agentic animism toward the robot.•5-year-olds and adults understood that the robot was nonliving, but attributed living properties to it after an interaction.
论文关键词：Animism,Human-robot interaction,Mentalizing
论文评审过程：Received 6 June 2019, Revised 29 December 2020, Accepted 6 January 2021, Available online 9 January 2021, Version of Record 23 January 2021.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106688
