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Young Children’s Indiscriminate Helping Behavior Toward a Humanoid Robot
Young children help others in a range of situations, relatively indiscriminate of the characteristics of those they help. Recent results have suggested that young children’s helping behavior extends even to humanoid robots. However, it has been unclear how characteristics of robots would influence c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7047927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32153463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00239 |
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author | Martin, Dorothea U. MacIntyre, Madeline I. Perry, Conrad Clift, Georgia Pedell, Sonja Kaufman, Jordy |
author_facet | Martin, Dorothea U. MacIntyre, Madeline I. Perry, Conrad Clift, Georgia Pedell, Sonja Kaufman, Jordy |
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description | Young children help others in a range of situations, relatively indiscriminate of the characteristics of those they help. Recent results have suggested that young children’s helping behavior extends even to humanoid robots. However, it has been unclear how characteristics of robots would influence children’s helping behavior. Considering previous findings suggesting that certain robot features influence adults’ perception of and their behavior toward robots, the question arises of whether young children’s behavior and perception would follow the same principles. The current study investigated whether two key characteristics of a humanoid robot (animate autonomy and friendly expressiveness) would affect children’s instrumental helping behavior and their perception of the robot as an animate being. Eighty-two 3-year-old children participated in one of four experimental conditions manipulating a robot’s ostensible animate autonomy (high/low) and friendly expressiveness (friendly/neutral). Helping was assessed in an out-of-reach task and animacy ratings were assessed in a post-test interview. Results suggested that both children’s helping behavior, as well as their perception of the robot as animate, were unaffected by the robot’s characteristics. The findings indicate that young children’s helping behavior extends largely indiscriminately across two important characteristics. These results increase our understanding of the development of children’s altruistic behavior and animate-inanimate distinctions. Our findings also raise important ethical questions for the field of child-robot interaction. |
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spelling | pubmed-70479272020-03-09 Young Children’s Indiscriminate Helping Behavior Toward a Humanoid Robot Martin, Dorothea U. MacIntyre, Madeline I. Perry, Conrad Clift, Georgia Pedell, Sonja Kaufman, Jordy Front Psychol Psychology Young children help others in a range of situations, relatively indiscriminate of the characteristics of those they help. Recent results have suggested that young children’s helping behavior extends even to humanoid robots. However, it has been unclear how characteristics of robots would influence children’s helping behavior. Considering previous findings suggesting that certain robot features influence adults’ perception of and their behavior toward robots, the question arises of whether young children’s behavior and perception would follow the same principles. The current study investigated whether two key characteristics of a humanoid robot (animate autonomy and friendly expressiveness) would affect children’s instrumental helping behavior and their perception of the robot as an animate being. Eighty-two 3-year-old children participated in one of four experimental conditions manipulating a robot’s ostensible animate autonomy (high/low) and friendly expressiveness (friendly/neutral). Helping was assessed in an out-of-reach task and animacy ratings were assessed in a post-test interview. Results suggested that both children’s helping behavior, as well as their perception of the robot as animate, were unaffected by the robot’s characteristics. The findings indicate that young children’s helping behavior extends largely indiscriminately across two important characteristics. These results increase our understanding of the development of children’s altruistic behavior and animate-inanimate distinctions. Our findings also raise important ethical questions for the field of child-robot interaction. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7047927/ /pubmed/32153463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00239 Text en Copyright © 2020 Martin, MacIntyre, Perry, Clift, Pedell and Kaufman. 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. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Martin, Dorothea U. MacIntyre, Madeline I. Perry, Conrad Clift, Georgia Pedell, Sonja Kaufman, Jordy Young Children’s Indiscriminate Helping Behavior Toward a Humanoid Robot |
title | Young Children’s Indiscriminate Helping Behavior Toward a Humanoid Robot |
title_full | Young Children’s Indiscriminate Helping Behavior Toward a Humanoid Robot |
title_fullStr | Young Children’s Indiscriminate Helping Behavior Toward a Humanoid Robot |
title_full_unstemmed | Young Children’s Indiscriminate Helping Behavior Toward a Humanoid Robot |
title_short | Young Children’s Indiscriminate Helping Behavior Toward a Humanoid Robot |
title_sort | young children’s indiscriminate helping behavior toward a humanoid robot |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7047927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32153463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00239 |
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