Title
Teammates First: Favoring Ingroup Robots Over Outgroup Humans
Abstract
When it's between a robot on your team and a human member of a competing team, who will you favor? Past research indicates that people favor and behave more morally toward ingroup than outgroup members. Conversely, people typically indicate that they have more moral responsibilities toward humans than nonhumans. This study puts participants into two competing teams, each consisting of two humans and two robots, to examine how people behave toward others depending on Group (ingroup, outgroup) and Agent (human, robot) variables. Measures of behavioral aggression used in previous studies (i.e., noise blasts) and reported liking and anthropomorphism evaluations of humans and robots indicated that participants favored the ingroup over the outgroup, and humans over robots. Group had a greater effect than Agent, so participants preferred ingroup robots to outgroup humans.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
2017 26TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION (RO-MAN)
Social psychology,Computer science,Atmospheric measurements,Ethnology,Robot,Moral responsibility,Aggression,Outgroup,Ingroups and outgroups
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1944-9445
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marlena R. Fraune1376.66
Selma Sabanovic230244.66
Eliot R. Smith3325.27