"Robovie, you'll have to go into the closet now": Children's social and moral relationships with a humanoid robot

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 303-314

  Kahn, Peter H ^a   Kanda, Takayuki ^b   Ishiguro, Hiroshi ^b,c   Freier, Nathan G ^a   Severson, Rachel L ^a   Gill, Brian T ^d   Ruckert, Jolina H ^a   Shen, Solace ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs about robots; Human robot interaction; Mental models of robots; Responses to autonomy; Robots with children

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MORALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MORALS; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84863006592     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027033     Document Type: Article

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