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Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2014 Does a fantastic form in exist in experimental theatre? This essay starts from the Freudian concept of Das Unheimliche to analyze the latest considerations suggested by literary critics. The argument derives from a multidisciplinary perspective including
Monica Cristini
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Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms often seek to replace human agents (HAs) with automated agents (AAs) for customer service, but customers still tend to react more negatively to AAs than to HAs. This meta‐analysis examines agent‐related perceptions (i.e., humanlikeness, warmth, and competence), which represent the key upstream customer reactions shaping downstream ...
Sandra Miederer +3 more
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The Contextual Autonomy Principle: When and Why Social Service Robots Are Perceived as Ethical
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As social service robots move into both public and private settings, perceived ethicality becomes a key condition of adoption. We propose that the same robotic capability can acquire different ethical meanings depending on context, governance form, and social presence. Across three studies, we show that restaurant (vs.
Lars Meyer‐Waarden, Julien Cloarec
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Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) in marketing, consumers often exhibit algorithm discounting—a tendency to evaluate AI‐generated recommendations less favorably than those from humans. Focusing on consumption goals, this study investigates how anthropomorphic AI agents (virtual assistants vs.
Jiayue Huang +4 more
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The Physical, Emotional, and Autonomous Anthropomorphism of Service Chatbots
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior research on chatbot anthropomorphism has often treated it as a unidimensional construct, producing inconsistent findings regarding how human‐like design cues shape user responses. This study conceptualizes anthropomorphism as a multidimensional higher‐order perception comprising three distinct forms of anthropomorphic attribution ...
Yangjuan Hu, Fulya Acikgoz, Shubin Yu
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Treatment Preferences of Patients With Myasthenia Gravis: A Qualitative Study
Muscle &Nerve, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction/Aims The burden of myasthenia gravis (MG) is often underestimated, and studies usually focus on the symptom burden. However, treatment‐related adverse events also contribute to patients' burdens and affect their treatment decisions.
Meg Mendoza +6 more
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Deviation from typical organic voices best explains a vocal uncanny valley
Computers in Human Behavior ReportsThe uncanny valley describes the negative evaluation of near humanlike artificial entities. Previous research with synthetic and real voices failed to find an uncanny valley of voices. This may have been due to an incomplete selection of stimuli.
Alexander Diel, Michael Lewis
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Alongside the rise of the evidence‐based conservation movement over the past 20 years, environmental education (EE) has emerged as a worthwhile strategy to achieve conservation goals. EE can help develop the societal attitudes, knowledge, skills, behaviours and norms that address conservation and environmental challenges and build deeper ...
Nicole M. Ardoin +4 more
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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