The Master in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience invites to the CIMCYC Talks “Anthropomorphization - The psychological effects of robots that appear human”, with Dr. Roy de Kleijn, researcher at the University of Leiden:
"Anthropomorphization is the attribution of human qualities to non-human agents or objects. For example, people can become frustrated with technology and scream at it, as if it could be reprimanded. We also tend to talk to pets, knowing full well that they cannot understand us. In robots, their morphology (how they look) seems to have effects on how we interact with them. In this lecture we will discuss the relationship between robot morphology, robot anthropomorphization, and (pro-)social behavior toward robots and difficulties measuring this".