Machines and mindlessness: Social responses to computers

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-103

  Nass, Clifford ^a,b   Moon, Youngme ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033933096     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0022-4537.00153     Document Type: Article

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