In daily social interactions, we need to be able to navigate efficiently through our social environment. According to Dennett (1971), explaining and predicting others’ behavior with reference to mental states (adopting the intentional stance) allows efficient social interaction. Today we also routinely interact with artificial agents: from Apple’s Siri to GPS navigation systems. In the near future, we might start casually interacting with robots. This paper addresses the question of whether adopting the intentional stance can also occur with respect to artificial agents. We propose a new tool to explore if people adopt the intentional stance toward an artificial agent (humanoid robot). The tool consists in a questionnaire that probes participants’ stance by requiring them to choose the likelihood of an explanation (mentalistic vs. mechanistic) of a behavior of a robot iCub depicted in a naturalistic scenario (a sequence of photographs). The results of the first study conducted with this questionnaire showed that although the explanations were somewhat biased toward the mechanistic stance, a substantial number of mentalistic explanations were also given. This suggests that it is possible to induce adoption of the intentional stance toward artificial agents, at least in some contexts.


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    Titel :

    Do We Adopt the Intentional Stance Toward Humanoid Robots?


    Beteiligte:
    Serena Marchesi (Autor:in) / Davide Ghiglino (Autor:in) / Francesca Ciardo (Autor:in) / Jairo Perez-Osorio (Autor:in) / Ebru Baykara (Autor:in) / Agnieszka Wykowska (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2019-03-15


    Anmerkungen:

    oai:zenodo.org:3516615
    Frontiers in Psychology 10:450



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629






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