Fluency, prediction and motivation: how processing dynamics, expectations and epistemic goals shape aesthetic judgements

J Yoo, K Jasko, P Winkielman - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
What psychological mechanisms underlie aesthetic judgements? An influential account
known as the Hedonic Marking of Fluency, later developed into a Processing Fluency …

A meta-analysis of the uncanny valley's independent and dependent variables

A Diel, S Weigelt, KF Macdorman - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The uncanny valley (UV) effect is a negative affective reaction to human-looking artificial
entities. It hinders comfortable, trust-based interactions with android robots and virtual …

The face‐mind link: Why we see minds behind faces, and how others' minds change how we see their face

JC Deska, K Hugenberg - Social and Personality Psychology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding others' minds has puzzled philosophers for centuries. Psychologists, too,
have recently begun asking questions about what causes us to see another person as …

[HTML][HTML] Uncanny but not confusing: Multisite study of perceptual category confusion in the Uncanny Valley

MB Mathur, DB Reichling, F Lunardini… - Computers in Human …, 2020 - Elsevier
Android robots that resemble humans closely, but not perfectly, can provoke negative
feelings of dislike and eeriness in humans (the “Uncanny Valley” effect). We investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Creepy cats and strange high houses: Support for configural processing in testing predictions of nine uncanny valley theories

A Diel, KF MacDorman - Journal of Vision, 2021 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Abstract In 1970, Masahiro Mori proposed the uncanny valley (UV), a region in a human-
likeness continuum where an entity risks eliciting a cold, eerie, repellent feeling. Recent …

Virtual faces evoke only a weak uncanny valley effect: An empirical investigation with controlled virtual face images

J Kätsyri, B De Gelder, T Takala - Perception, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The uncanny valley (UV) hypothesis suggests that increasingly human-like robots or virtual
characters elicit more familiarity in their observers (positive affinity) with the exception of …

[HTML][HTML] Structural deviations drive an uncanny valley of physical places

A Diel, M Lewis - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Certain built environments can decrease aesthetic appeal. For humans and objects,
deviation from typical appearances leads to nonlinear appraisal characterized as the …

The deviation-from-familiarity effect: Expertise increases uncanniness of deviating exemplars

A Diel, M Lewis - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Humanlike entities deviating from the norm of human appearance are perceived as strange
or uncanny. Explanations for the eeriness of deviating humanlike entities include ideas …

Familiarity, orientation, and realism increase face uncanniness by sensitizing to facial distortions

A Diel, M Lewis - Journal of Vision, 2022 - jov.arvojournals.org
The uncanny valley predicts aversive reactions toward near-humanlike entities. Greater
uncanniness is elicited by distortions in realistic than unrealistic faces, possibly due to …

Exploring verbal uncanny valley effects with vague language in computer speech

L Clark, A Ofemile, BR Cowan - … : Studies on sexy, likable, and charismatic …, 2021 - Springer
Interactions with speech interfaces are growing, helped by the advent of intelligent personal
assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. This software is utilised in hardware …