Rationale Belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories can have severe consequences; it is therefore
crucial to understand this phenomenon, in its similarities with general conspiracy belief, …

As robots are increasingly deployed in settings requiring social interaction, research is
needed to examine the social signals perceived by humans when robots display certain social …

We conducted a preregistered exploratory survey to assess whether patterns of individual
differences in political orientation, social dominance orientation (SDO), traditionalism, …

Improving scientific literacy requires examining both what people believe about scientific issues
and why they hold those beliefs. We examined how people justified their agreement with …

In this paper we suggest that differing approaches to the science of social cognition mirror
the arguments between radical embodied and traditional approaches to cognition. We …

Human-robot interaction (HRI) research requires new techniques for understanding the social
dynamics that occur at the interface between humans and robots. Prior work has focused …

Human-robot interaction (HRI) research needs to leverage the theories and findings from
multiple disciplines to inform subsequent empirical investigation and robot design. Utilizing …

Science and technology have had profound effects on human culture, and in recent de cades
there has been an exponential growth in (and access to) scientific information. The key …

Robots are increasingly being introduced into task environments that require the ability to
exhibit appropriate social functionality. The present study is an examination of how social cues …

We discuss an experiment investigating the influence of social cues expressed by a robot on
human attributions of interpersonal characteristics towards a robot and assessments of its …