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Emotional Empathy as a Mechanism of Synchronisation in Child-Robot Interaction

Simulating emotional experience, emotional empathy is the fundamental ingredient of interpersonal communication. In the speaker-listener scenario, the speaker is always a child, the listener is a human or a toy robot. Two groups of neurotypical children aged 6 years on average composed the populatio...

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Autores principales: Giannopulu, Irini, Terada, Kazunori, Watanabe, Tomio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30459664
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01852
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author Giannopulu, Irini
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description Simulating emotional experience, emotional empathy is the fundamental ingredient of interpersonal communication. In the speaker-listener scenario, the speaker is always a child, the listener is a human or a toy robot. Two groups of neurotypical children aged 6 years on average composed the population: one Japanese (n = 20) and one French (n = 20). Revealing potential similarities in communicative exchanges in both groups when in contact with a human or a toy robot, the results might signify that emotional empathy requires the implication of an automatic identification. In this sense, emotional empathy might be considered a broad idiosyncrasy, a kind of synchronisation, offering the mind a peculiar form of communication. Our findings seem to be consistent with the assumption that children’s brains would be constructed to simulate the feelings of others in order to ensure interpersonal synchronisation.
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spelling pubmed-62327612018-11-20 Emotional Empathy as a Mechanism of Synchronisation in Child-Robot Interaction Giannopulu, Irini Terada, Kazunori Watanabe, Tomio Front Psychol Psychology Simulating emotional experience, emotional empathy is the fundamental ingredient of interpersonal communication. In the speaker-listener scenario, the speaker is always a child, the listener is a human or a toy robot. Two groups of neurotypical children aged 6 years on average composed the population: one Japanese (n = 20) and one French (n = 20). Revealing potential similarities in communicative exchanges in both groups when in contact with a human or a toy robot, the results might signify that emotional empathy requires the implication of an automatic identification. In this sense, emotional empathy might be considered a broad idiosyncrasy, a kind of synchronisation, offering the mind a peculiar form of communication. Our findings seem to be consistent with the assumption that children’s brains would be constructed to simulate the feelings of others in order to ensure interpersonal synchronisation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6232761/ /pubmed/30459664 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01852 Text en Copyright © 2018 Giannopulu, Terada and Watanabe. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Emotional Empathy as a Mechanism of Synchronisation in Child-Robot Interaction
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title_sort emotional empathy as a mechanism of synchronisation in child-robot interaction
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30459664
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01852
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