Despite the documented benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the service industry, the
service employees' fear of being replaced by AI continues to be a major concern as we …

The evaluation of how (human) individuals perceive robots is a central issue to better
understand human–robot interaction (HRI). On this topic, promising proposals have …

Anthropomorphism describes the tendency to attribute human characteristics to non-human
agents such as robots. These attributions could depend on some dispositional factors such …

For more than a century, social psychologists have been trying to understand how the
presence of conspecifics—perhaps the most fundamental invariant of behavior in many, if …

The development of executive function (EF) has been linked to various life outcomes,
motivating intense research on the topic. While much of this research has focused on more …

Humanoid robots might become more and more present in the most ordinary contexts of
millions of people worldwide. Humans reason about these artificial agents mainly through …

There is evidence that attentional control mechanisms in humans can be boosted in
performance contexts involving the presence of other human agents, compared with …

The presence of external observers has been shown to affect performance on cognitive
tasks, but the parameters of this impact for different types of tasks and the underlying neural …

In the forthcoming decade, interactions between humans and robots are expected to
increase gradually. The attitudes that individuals hold towards robots will play a pivotal role …

Artificial intelligence and robots may progressively take a more and more prominent place in
our daily environment. Interestingly, in the study of how humans perceive these artificial …