Preschoolers’ anthropomorphizing of robots: Do human-like properties matter?
Prior work has yielded contradicting evidence regarding the age at which children consistently and correctly categorize things as living or non-living. The present study tested children’s animacy judgments about robots with a Naïve Biology task. In the Naïve Biology task, 3- and 5-year-olds were ask...
Main Authors: | Elizabeth J. Goldman, Anna-Elisabeth Baumann, Diane Poulin-Dubois |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-02-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1102370/full |
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