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Perceptions of Robot Experience Reshape Human Social Networks

2026-07-20

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Robots are increasingly embedded in human social systems, yet it remains unclear how perceptions of non-human agents reshape human–human social networks. In this study, we show that attributing experiential mental states to robots acts as a social signal that reduces interpersonal inclusion and fragments communication networks. Across one experiment and a three-wave field study of 3,416...

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Literature Corpus work: 3bb8bc72-7111-521b-9c7c-bd67c05752c0
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10299994/v1

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