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Humanoid robots are perceived as an evolutionary threat

2021-08-13

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Studying how we perceive humanoid robots will provide insights for a deeper understanding of human-robot interaction. Our ideas about humanoid robots are mainly informed by science fiction, and humanoid robots are generally described as an evolutionary threat in science fiction that has not been tested. The preparedness model has emphasized that the fear module is automatically activated by evolutionary threats, a...

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Literature Corpus work: 91201bf7-63e0-5c19-8ae4-9a216a36f932
DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.13.456053

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