Young Children Treat Robots as Informants
Children ranging from 3 to 5 years were introduced to two anthropomorphic robots that provided them with information about unfamiliar animals. Children treated the robots as interlocutors. They supplied information to the robots and retained what the robots told them. Children also treated the robot...
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| author | Harris, Paul L. DeSteno, David Dickens, Leah Kory Westlund, Jacqueline Marie Jeong, Sooyeon Breazeal, Cynthia Lynn |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Harris, Paul L. DeSteno, David Dickens, Leah Kory Westlund, Jacqueline Marie Jeong, Sooyeon Breazeal, Cynthia Lynn |
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| description | Children ranging from 3 to 5 years were introduced to two anthropomorphic robots that provided them with information about unfamiliar animals. Children treated the robots as interlocutors. They supplied information to the robots and retained what the robots told them. Children also treated the robots as informants from whom they could seek information. Consistent with studies of children's early sensitivity to an interlocutor's non-verbal signals, children were especially attentive and receptive to whichever robot displayed the greater non-verbal contingency. Such selective information seeking is consistent with recent findings showing that although young children learn from others, they are selective with respect to the informants that they question or endorse. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1082042022-09-26T09:13:22Z Young Children Treat Robots as Informants Harris, Paul L. DeSteno, David Dickens, Leah Kory Westlund, Jacqueline Marie Jeong, Sooyeon Breazeal, Cynthia Lynn Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Breazeal, Cynthia Breazeal, Cynthia L. Kory Westlund, Jacqueline Marie Jeong, Sooyeon Children ranging from 3 to 5 years were introduced to two anthropomorphic robots that provided them with information about unfamiliar animals. Children treated the robots as interlocutors. They supplied information to the robots and retained what the robots told them. Children also treated the robots as informants from whom they could seek information. Consistent with studies of children's early sensitivity to an interlocutor's non-verbal signals, children were especially attentive and receptive to whichever robot displayed the greater non-verbal contingency. Such selective information seeking is consistent with recent findings showing that although young children learn from others, they are selective with respect to the informants that they question or endorse. 2017-04-18T13:26:44Z 2017-04-18T13:26:44Z 2016-04 2014-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1756-8757 1756-8765 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108204 Breazeal, Cynthia; Harris, Paul L.; DeSteno, David; Kory Westlund, Jacqueline M.; Dickens, Leah and Jeong, Sooyeon. “Young Children Treat Robots as Informants.” Topics in Cognitive Science 8, no. 2 (March 4, 2016): 481–491. © 2016 Cognitive Science Society, Inc. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0587-2065 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0418-4674 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0085-8130 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops.12192 Topics in Cognitive Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Wiley Blackwell Breazeal |
| spellingShingle | Harris, Paul L. DeSteno, David Dickens, Leah Kory Westlund, Jacqueline Marie Jeong, Sooyeon Breazeal, Cynthia Lynn Young Children Treat Robots as Informants |
| title | Young Children Treat Robots as Informants |
| title_full | Young Children Treat Robots as Informants |
| title_fullStr | Young Children Treat Robots as Informants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Young Children Treat Robots as Informants |
| title_short | Young Children Treat Robots as Informants |
| title_sort | young children treat robots as informants |
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