Humans interpret and predict others' behaviors by ascribing intentions or beliefs, or in other
words, by adopting the intentional stance. Since artificial agents are increasingly populating …

One of the key questions in human–robot interaction research is whether humans perceive
robots as intentional agents, or rather only as mindless machines. Research has shown that …

It has long been recognized that humans tend to anthropomorphize. That is, we naturally
and effortlessly interpret the behaviors of nonhuman agents in the same way we interpret …

In this study, we examined whether the likelihood of attributing intentionality to robots is
influenced by the human-likeness of errors during HRI. To this end, we designed an …

In the last decade, scientists investigating human social cognition have started bringing
traditional laboratory paradigms more “into the wild” to examine how socio-cognitive …

In our daily lives, we are continually involved in decision‐making situations, many of which
take place in the context of social interaction. Despite the ubiquity of such situations, there …

Robots are becoming part of our social landscape. Social interaction with humans must be
efficient and intuitive to understand because nonverbal cues make social interactions …

Social interactions with artificial agents, such as voice agents, physically-embodied robots
and avatars in virtual reality, are becoming increasingly normalised. As we strive to …

People tend to attribute human traits to non-human entities, such as animals, God or robots.
This tendency, referred to as anthropomorphism, is seen as a natural, automatic inclination …

Prospective memory (PM) has rarely been investigated in the context of smartphones. We
embedded a PM task in an online, smartphone-based survey that participants were asked to …