Belief in sharing the same phenomenological experience increases the likelihood of adopting the intentional stance toward a humanoid robot.

Humans interpret and predict others’ behaviors by ascribing intentions or beliefs, in other words, adopting the intentional stance. Since artificial agents are increasingly populating our daily environments, question arises whether (and under which conditions) humans would apply “human model” to understand of these new social agents. Thus, a series three experiments, we tested embedding interaction with humanoid robot either displaying human-like machine-like behavior modulate their initial tendency adopt Results showed that indeed more prone stance after having interacted socially available robot, while no modulation adoption emerged toward mechanistic robot. We conclude short experiences robots presumably inducing “like-me” impression bonding increase likelihood