Can social robots affect children's prosocial behavior? An experimental study on prosocial robot models

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Highlights:

• Strongly prosocial robots elicit more prosocial behavior among children.

• Strongly prosocial robots affect children's descriptive norms about sharing.

• Only at the very beginning do prosocial robots influence whether children show prosocial behavior at all.

• The principles of social learning also apply to social robots and children's learning of prosocial behavior from them.

摘要

•Strongly prosocial robots elicit more prosocial behavior among children.•Strongly prosocial robots affect children's descriptive norms about sharing.•Only at the very beginning do prosocial robots influence whether children show prosocial behavior at all.•The principles of social learning also apply to social robots and children's learning of prosocial behavior from them.

论文关键词:Human-machine interaction,Child-robot interaction,Observational learning,Persuasive robotics,Young people,Sharing

论文评审过程:Received 24 July 2020, Revised 15 December 2020, Accepted 19 January 2021, Available online 31 January 2021, Version of Record 3 March 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106712