Not Only the Lonely—How Men Explicitly and Implicitly Evaluate the Attractiveness of Sex Robots in Comparison to the Attractiveness of Women, and Personal Characteristics Influencing This Evaluation

While some theories, such as the Media Equation, suggest that men will evaluate sex robots to be attractive, other assumptions (e.g., biases of norm adherence) would contradict this hypothesis. Therefore, the present study aimed at empirically comparing men’s explicit and implicit evaluation of the...

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Main Authors: Jessica M. Szczuka, Nicole C. Krämer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-02-01
Series:Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
Subjects:
HRI
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/1/1/3