When artificial social agents try to persuade people: The role of social agency on the occurrence of psychological reactance

International Journal of Social Robotics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-165

  Roubroeks, Maaike ^a   Ham, Jaap ^a   Midden, Cees ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Energy conservation behavior; Persuasive agents; Psychological reactance intentionality; Social influence

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; MOTION PICTURES; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL ROBOTS;

CONSERVE ENERGY; ENERGY CONSERVATION BEHAVIORS; INTENTIONALITY; ON-LINE EXPERIMENTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTANCES; ROBOTIC AGENTS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 84857590047     PISSN: 18754791     EISSN: 18754805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-010-0088-1     Document Type: Article

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