This review focuses on some relevant issues concerning the relationship between theory of
mind (ToM) and humanoid robots. Humanoid robots are employed in different everyday-life …

Clifford Nass and his colleagues proposed the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA)
paradigm in the 1990s and demonstrated that we treat computers in some of the ways we …

Recent technological developments in robotics has driven the design and production of
different humanoid robots. Several studies have highlighted that the presence of human-like …

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 …

There is currently no systematic review of the growing body of literature on using social
robots in early developmental research. Designing appropriate methods for early childhood …

Since robots are becoming involved in children's lives, it is urgent to determine how children
perceive robots. The present study assessed whether Japanese 5‐year‐olds care about …

Including robots in children's lives calls for reflection on the psychological and moral aspects
of such relationships, especially with respect to children's ability to differentiate intentional …

Several studies have shown that infants anticipate human goal-directed actions, but not
robot's ones. However, the studies focusing on the robot goal-directed actions have mainly …

A recent controversy in infants' social learning has revolved around whether ostensive cues
have an effect beyond simply grabbing infants' attention: natural pedagogy theory vs …

According to the Theory of Natural Pedagogy, object-directed emotion may provide different
information depending on the context: in a communicative context, the information conveys …