Better than Us: The Role of Implicit Self-Theories in Determining Perceived Threat Responses in HRI

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Experiment uses a 2x3 between-subjects design that experimentally primes implicit self-theory, shows a video of a supposedly autonomous robot beating human quiz players, then gives social‑comparison, improvement, or no feedback and an opportunity to play. Results show incremental theorists rate robots as significantly less threatening to identity and jobs and are more willing to play after imagining losing, while entity theorists see substantially higher realistic and identity threat. Dataset and stimuli are available.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:46Get the paper.
3. 1:01What is Perceived threat?
4. 1:19Realistic Threat
5. 1:30Robots perceived to outperform humans on a variety of physical and mental tasks increase feelings of threat.
6. 1:51Autonomous robots capable of disregarding human commands, are considered to be especially threatening.
7. 2:38What are the determinants of threat perception?
8. 3:53People tend to endorse one IST more than the other.
9. 4:04ISTs can be measured as a trait variable or experimentally induced.
10. 4:19ISTs influence the trait attributions people make with respect to others.
11. 4:32Entity theorists make stereotypical judgments about the traits of others.
12. 4:46Incremental theorists make fewer trait attributions.
13. 4:56Stereotyping is a key component in the formation of outgroup attributions.
14. 5:13Entity theorists exhibit greater negative beliefs about robots.
15. 5:29Incremental theory will decrease- whereas an entity theory will increase- perceptions of threat.
16. 5:491. Incremental (vs. entity) theorists will rate robots In general as posing less (vs. more) identity relevant threats.
17. 6:09A 2 (implicit self-theory: entity vs. incremental) X3 (feedback: social comparison vs. Improvement- oriented vs. control) between- subjects factorial design.