The Robot Made Me Do It : Human–Robot Interaction and Risk-Taking Behavior
▻https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cyber.2020.0148?journalCode=cyber&
Empirical evidence has shown that peer pressure can impact human risk-taking behavior. With robots becoming ever more present in a range of human settings, it is crucial to examine whether robots can have a similar impact. Using the balloon analogue risk task (BART), participants’ risk-taking behavior was measured when alone, in the presence of a silent robot, or in the presence of a robot that actively encouraged risk-taking behavior. In the BART, shown to be a proxy for real risk-taking (...)