TY - JOUR
T1 - Theory of Mind in Social Robots
T2 - Replication of Five Established Human Tests
AU - Banks, Jaime
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature B.V.
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - Theory of Mind is an inferential system central to human–human communication by which people ascribe mental states to self and other, and then use those deductions to make predictions about others’ behaviors. Despite the likelihood that ToM may also be central to interactions with other types of agents exhibiting similar cues, it is not yet fully known whether humans develop ToM for mechanical agents exhibiting properties of intelligence and sociality. A suite of five tests for implicit ToM were performed (white lie test, behavioral intention task, facial affect inference, vocal affect inference, and false-belief test) for three different robots and a human control. Findings suggest that implicit ToM signals are consistent across variably human-like robots and humans, so long as the social cues are similar and interpretable, but there is no association between implicit ToM signals and explicit mind ascription; findings suggest that heuristics and deliberation of mental status of robots may compete with implicit social-cognitive reactions.
AB - Theory of Mind is an inferential system central to human–human communication by which people ascribe mental states to self and other, and then use those deductions to make predictions about others’ behaviors. Despite the likelihood that ToM may also be central to interactions with other types of agents exhibiting similar cues, it is not yet fully known whether humans develop ToM for mechanical agents exhibiting properties of intelligence and sociality. A suite of five tests for implicit ToM were performed (white lie test, behavioral intention task, facial affect inference, vocal affect inference, and false-belief test) for three different robots and a human control. Findings suggest that implicit ToM signals are consistent across variably human-like robots and humans, so long as the social cues are similar and interpretable, but there is no association between implicit ToM signals and explicit mind ascription; findings suggest that heuristics and deliberation of mental status of robots may compete with implicit social-cognitive reactions.
KW - Anthropomorphism
KW - Mind perception
KW - Social cognition
KW - Social scripts
KW - Theory of mind
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073950152&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12369-019-00588-x
DO - 10.1007/s12369-019-00588-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073950152
VL - 12
SP - 403
EP - 414
JO - International Journal of Social Robotics
JF - International Journal of Social Robotics
SN - 1875-4791
IS - 2
ER -