Did Artificial Intelligence Invade Humans? The Study on the Mechanism of Patients’ Willingness to Accept Artificial Intelligence Medical Care: From the Perspective of Intergroup Threat Theory
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the core driving forces for the future development of the medical industry, but patients are skeptical about the use of AI in medical care. Based on the intergroup threat theory (ITT), this study verified that patients would regard AI as an external gro...
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| description | Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the core driving forces for the future development of the medical industry, but patients are skeptical about the use of AI in medical care. Based on the intergroup threat theory (ITT), this study verified that patients would regard AI as an external group, triggering the perceived threat of the external group, which results in avoidance behaviors in the treatment (experiment 1: n = 446) and diagnosis (experiment 2: n = 330) scenarios. The results show that despite AI can provide expert-level accuracy in medical care, patients are still more likely to rely on human doctors and experience more negative emotions as AI is more involved in medical care (experiment 1). Furthermore, patients pay more attention to threats at the individual level related to themselves, such as realistic threats related to privacy issues and symbolic threats related to the neglect of personal characteristics. In contrast, realistic threats and symbolic threats at the group level had less effect on patients in the medical scenario (experiment 2). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b7dac9ad00f7460894745df4d00928c82022-12-22T03:02:55ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-05-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.866124866124Did Artificial Intelligence Invade Humans? The Study on the Mechanism of Patients’ Willingness to Accept Artificial Intelligence Medical Care: From the Perspective of Intergroup Threat TheoryYuwei Zhou0Yichuan Shi1Wei Lu2Fang Wan3Fang Wan4Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaAntai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaAntai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaFudan University Sports Medicine Institute, Shanghai, ChinaDepartment of Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Surgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, ChinaArtificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the core driving forces for the future development of the medical industry, but patients are skeptical about the use of AI in medical care. Based on the intergroup threat theory (ITT), this study verified that patients would regard AI as an external group, triggering the perceived threat of the external group, which results in avoidance behaviors in the treatment (experiment 1: n = 446) and diagnosis (experiment 2: n = 330) scenarios. The results show that despite AI can provide expert-level accuracy in medical care, patients are still more likely to rely on human doctors and experience more negative emotions as AI is more involved in medical care (experiment 1). Furthermore, patients pay more attention to threats at the individual level related to themselves, such as realistic threats related to privacy issues and symbolic threats related to the neglect of personal characteristics. In contrast, realistic threats and symbolic threats at the group level had less effect on patients in the medical scenario (experiment 2).https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.866124/fullartificial intelligence medical careintergroup threat theoryrealistic threatssymbolic threatswillingness to accept (WTA)treatment |
| spellingShingle | Yuwei Zhou Yichuan Shi Wei Lu Fang Wan Fang Wan Did Artificial Intelligence Invade Humans? The Study on the Mechanism of Patients’ Willingness to Accept Artificial Intelligence Medical Care: From the Perspective of Intergroup Threat Theory Frontiers in Psychology artificial intelligence medical care intergroup threat theory realistic threats symbolic threats willingness to accept (WTA) treatment |
| title | Did Artificial Intelligence Invade Humans? The Study on the Mechanism of Patients’ Willingness to Accept Artificial Intelligence Medical Care: From the Perspective of Intergroup Threat Theory |
| title_full | Did Artificial Intelligence Invade Humans? The Study on the Mechanism of Patients’ Willingness to Accept Artificial Intelligence Medical Care: From the Perspective of Intergroup Threat Theory |
| title_fullStr | Did Artificial Intelligence Invade Humans? The Study on the Mechanism of Patients’ Willingness to Accept Artificial Intelligence Medical Care: From the Perspective of Intergroup Threat Theory |
| title_full_unstemmed | Did Artificial Intelligence Invade Humans? The Study on the Mechanism of Patients’ Willingness to Accept Artificial Intelligence Medical Care: From the Perspective of Intergroup Threat Theory |
| title_short | Did Artificial Intelligence Invade Humans? The Study on the Mechanism of Patients’ Willingness to Accept Artificial Intelligence Medical Care: From the Perspective of Intergroup Threat Theory |
| title_sort | did artificial intelligence invade humans the study on the mechanism of patients willingness to accept artificial intelligence medical care from the perspective of intergroup threat theory |
| topic | artificial intelligence medical care intergroup threat theory realistic threats symbolic threats willingness to accept (WTA) treatment |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.866124/full |
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