Categorization difficulty is associated with negative evaluation in the "uncanny valley" phenomenon

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-32

  Yamada, Yuki ^a   Kawabe, Takahiro ^b   Ihaya, Keiko ^c  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT Corporation   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emotion; Impression; Object categorization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871913679     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: 14685884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2012.00538.x     Document Type: Article

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