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Some Adults Fail the False-Belief Task When the Believer Is a Robot

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People's mental models of robots affect their predictions of robot behavior in interactions. The present study highlights some of the uncertainties that enter specifically into people's considerations about the minds and behavior of robots by exploring how people fare in the standard "Sally-Anne" false-belief task from developmental psychology when the protagonist is a robot.

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    HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
    March 2020
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    ISBN:9781450370578
    DOI:10.1145/3371382
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    • (2023)Human–Robot Interaction Video Sequencing Task (HRIVST) for Robot's Behavior LegibilityIEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems10.1109/THMS.2023.332713253:6(975-984)Online publication date: Dec-2023
    • (2022)The robotic mentalist – On the influences of robots’ mentalizing abilities and external manipulative intent on people’s credibility attributionsFrontiers in Psychology10.3389/fpsyg.2022.99330213Online publication date: 26-Oct-2022
    • (2022)Theory of Mind Assessment with Human-Human and Human-Robot InteractionsHuman-Computer Interaction. Technological Innovation10.1007/978-3-031-05409-9_41(564-579)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2022

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