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Evaluating the Replicability of the Uncanny Valley Effect

2018-11-07

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<p>The uncanny valley (UV) effect refers to an eerie feeling of unfamiliarity people get while observing or interacting with robots that resemble humans almost but not quite perfectly. The effect is not well understood, and it is also unclear how well results from previous research on the UV can be replicated. In six studies, both in the laboratory and online (N = 1343), we attempted to replicate the UV effect wit...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/hg8vb

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