Does This Robot Make Me Look Smart? How the Addition of a Robotic Pet Influences First Impressions

摘要

The current study examined whether the addition of either a robotic cat or arobotic dog to the picture of a male or female model, could affect the participants firstimpressions of the model. The participants were directed to a website and randomlyassigned to a picture. Next, they answered a survey related to their perceptions of themodel. Individual differences including participant gender, entity type, and response onrobot attitudes scale were found. The results indicate that the items around or with us canbe particularly important in public and social settings where first impressions can be theonly ones a person gets to make.