Mind the Machines: Applying Implicit Measures of Mind Perception to Social Robotics
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The study creates the MP-IAT — a two-part implicit association test using images of humans and robots plus words for agency and experience — and collects data from 51 MTurk participants. Results show negative D-scores: robots are implicitly associated with lower agency and much lower experience than humans, explicit ratings replicate lower robot mind but show larger gaps for experience, and implicit and explicit measures are not significantly correlated. Code and materials appear on OSF.
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