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The effect of a robotic agent on dishonest behavior
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Psychology and Social Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5403-0091
2020 (English)In: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2020, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Future human-robot interactions will have to consider different human traits. One human feature that may be affected by the presence of virtual agents or robots is human honesty. Will people try to take advantage in the presence of a robot/virtual agent? Some previous studies have shown that the physical presence of a robot can decrease cheating in humans. In this paper, we investigated if merely a simple video of a robot looking at the user was enough to affect human's cheating behavior. Further, we also investigated if the Honesty-Humility personality trait predicted cheating. We conducted a study with 160 participants that were randomly allocated to one of two conditions: (1) performing the task with a video of a robot looking at them, or (2) doing the task alone. Results showed that being alone or with a video of a robot produced equal levels of cheating and the Honesty-Humility dimension predicted cheating, particularly the fairness sub-domain was responsible for predicting cheating behavior. This study has implications for future scenarios where dishonesty might be tempting, and physical presence of an observer might not be possible. 

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020.
Keywords [en]
cheating behavior, dishonesty, human-agent interaction, Human-robot interaction
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-40696DOI: 10.1145/3383652.3423953ISI: 000728153600059Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85096959299ISBN: 9781450375863 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-40696DiVA, id: diva2:1507552
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20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2020, 20 October 2020 through 22 October 2020
Available from: 2020-12-08 Created: 2020-12-08 Last updated: 2022-01-10Bibliographically approved

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