Tom A Hutchinson, Stephen Liben
Mindful medical practice: An innovative core course to prepare medical students for clerkship
Perspectives on medical education
interactions consumers humanoid service robots hsrs ie robots humanlike morphology face arms legs soon part routine marketplace experiences unclear however whether humanoid robots compared human employees trigger positive negative consequences consumers companies seven experimental studies reveal consumers display compensatory responses interact hsr rather human employee eg favor purchasing status goods seek social affiliation order eat food authors investigate underlying process driving effects find hsrs elicit greater consumer discomfort ie eeriness threat human identity turn results enhancement compensatory consumption moreover research identifies boundary conditions effects compensatory responses hsrs elicit 1 mitigated consumerperceived social belongingness high 2 attenuated food perceived healthful 3 buffered robot machinized rather anthropomorphized