The Doors of Social Robot Perception: The Influence of Implicit Self-theories

Understanding people’s perceptions and inferences about social robots and, thus, their responses toward them, constitutes one of the most pervasive research themes in field Human–Robot interaction today. We herein augment extend this line work by investigating, for first time, novel proposition that one’s implicit self-theory orientation (underlying beliefs malleability self-attributes, such as intelligence), can influence emerging developed everyday use. show those who view self-attributes fixed (entity theorists) express greater robot anxiety than malleable (incremental theorists). This result holds even when controlling well-known covariate influences, like prior experience, media exposure to science fiction, technology commitment, certain demographic factors. However, only marginal effects were obtained both attitudinal intentional acceptance, respectively. In addition, we incremental theorists respond more favorably robots, compared entity theorists. Furthermore, find evidence indicating exhibit favorable a positioned servant. conclude with discussion our findings.