Investigating the nature of children's altruism using a social humanoid robot
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Highlights：
• Prior work on children's helping has generally examined helping other humans.
• We examined 3- to 4-year-old children's helping behaviour towards a humanoid robot.
• Children were most likely to help the robot when it appeared in need of help.
• Children appear to attribute goals to robots and feel motivated to help them.
• Children attributed animate characteristics to the robot.
摘要
•Prior work on children's helping has generally examined helping other humans.•We examined 3- to 4-year-old children's helping behaviour towards a humanoid robot.•Children were most likely to help the robot when it appeared in need of help.•Children appear to attribute goals to robots and feel motivated to help them.•Children attributed animate characteristics to the robot.
论文关键词：Prosocial behaviour,Altruism,Helping,Social robotics,Human-robot interaction,Animacy
论文评审过程：Received 20 December 2018, Revised 18 September 2019, Accepted 24 September 2019, Available online 27 September 2019, Version of Record 22 October 2019.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.09.025
