When Robots are Surprising: The Role of Cue Diagnosticity in Judging Robot Competence

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Previous research showed people’s explicit (vs. implicit) competence impressions were more sensitive to a robot’s single inconsistent (“oddball”) behavior. We report nine pre-registered studies (N = 3,735 online participants) testing the scope and underlying causes of this dissociation. We found that the dissociation (a) generalized to industrial robots, surgical robots, and self-drivin...

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• Biological Evolution
• Cooperative Behavior
• Decision Making
• Game Theory
• Interpersonal Relations
• Models, Statistical
• Phenotype
• Time Factors

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Literature Corpus work

488fa9b4-6f8f-58d9-ab42-1d1ba62e7a80

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-5852068/v1