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Patients and agents: Perception of artificial entities' minds in moral interactions

2016/23/D/HS6/02954

Keywords:

robots artificial entities human qualities mind perception moral interactions empathy

Descriptors:

  • HS6_1: General psychology (cognitive processes, emotions, motivations, personality, individual differences), experimental psychology, psycholinguistics
  • HS6_2: Social, political, environmental and intercultural psychology

Panel:

HS6 - Human nature and human society: psychology, pedagogy/education studies, sociology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Psychologii

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Aleksandra Świderska 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: SONATA 12 - announced on 2016-09-15

Amount awarded: 356 435 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2017-08-16

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-04-15

Project duration:: 56 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. program MediaLab (1 600 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (4)
  1. Seeing the mind of a robot: Harm augments mind perception but benevolent intentions reduce dehumanization in visual vignettes
    Authors:
    Dennis Küster, Aleksandra Swiderska
    Academic press:
    International Journal of Psychology (rok: 2021, tom: 56, strony: 454-465), Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1002/ijop.12715 - link to the publication
  2. Avatars in pain: Visible harm enhances mind perception in humans and robots
    Authors:
    Aleksandra Świderska, Dennis Küster
    Academic press:
    Perception (rok: 2018, tom: 47, strony: 1139-1152), Wydawca: SAGE
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1177/0301006618809919 - link to the publication
  3. Robots as malevolent moral agents: Harmful behavior results in dehumanization, not anthropomorphism
    Authors:
    Aleksandra Swiderska, Dennis Küster
    Academic press:
    Cognitive Science (rok: 2020, tom: 44, strony: e12872), Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/cogs.12872 - link to the publication
  4. I saw it on Youtube! How online videos shape perceptions of mind, morality, and fears about robots
    Authors:
    Dennis Küster, Aleksandra Swiderska, David Gunkel
    Academic press:
    New Media & Society (rok: 2021, tom: 23, strony: 3312-3331), Wydawca: Sage
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1177/1461444820954199 - link to the publication