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Styles of Action

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Discussions of style in contemporary analytic philosophy have been confined almost exclusively to aesthetics, yet many bodily actions seem to exhibit styles as well. We can have an aggressive or a placid style of driving; a sloppy or a meticulous style of washing the dishes; an idiomatic or a weird way of playing jazz.
Noam Tiran
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological mechanisms linking AI hallucinations to user trust and behavioral intentions toward AI-generated videos: an S–O–R perspective

Frontiers in Psychology
With the widespread adoption of AI-generated videos in media content production, their visual credibility and the associated issues of user trust have attracted increasing attention.
Jun Liu, Yue Sun, Kaiqi Xiao
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From Odors to Colors: Sensory Perception in Neurodiverse Mexican Youth

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous work has shown that humans make consistent associations between odor and color. However, neurodiverse individuals, especially those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), perceive and interpret sensory information differently from their neurotypical peers.
Patricia Zavaleta‐Ramírez, Mireia L. Sole Pi, Emilio Ruiz Alanis, Marcos F. Rosetti, Carolyn K. O'Meara   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The uncanny valley effect and immune activation in virtual reality

Scientific Reports
The uncanny valley effect describes a phenomenon where humanoid, almost lifelike virtual agents evoke feelings of discomfort in the observers. The Pathogen Avoidance Hypothesis proposes that these feelings are based on a cognitive mechanism that ...
Esther K. Diekhof, Svenja Kastner, Donna Deinert, Monika Foerster, Frank Steinicke   +4 more
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Avoidance of Novelty Contributes to the Uncanny Valley

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
A hypothesis suggests that objects with a high degree of visual similarity to real humans trigger negative impressions (i.e., the uncanny valley).
Kyoshiro Sasaki, Kyoshiro Sasaki, Kyoshiro Sasaki, Keiko Ihaya, Yuki Yamada   +4 more
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Humane by design: Toward safe, human‐centered multi‐agent systems

AI Magazine, Volume 47, Issue 4, Winter 2026.
Abstract Multi‐agent systems (MAS) are helping to unleash AI from the solitary confinement of standalone applications so they can perform coordinated actions in the wider world, functioning within distributed networks of people, tools, and other agents.
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Nancy Cooke, Michal A. Goodrich, Matthew Johnson, Mufti Mahmud, David D. Woods   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neural correlates of the uncanny valley effect for robots and hyper-realistic masks.

PLoS ONE
Viewing artificial objects and images that are designed to appear human can elicit a sense of unease, referred to as the 'uncanny valley' effect. Here we investigate neural correlates of the uncanny valley, using still images of androids (robots designed
Shona Fitzpatrick, Ailish K Byrne, Alex Headley, Jet G Sanders, Helen Petrie, Rob Jenkins, Daniel H Baker   +6 more
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Understanding Algorithm Discounting in Artificial Intelligence Recommendations: Matching Anthropomorphic Agents to Consumer Goals

Psychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 12, Page 3390-3409, December 2026.
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, Ruolei Gu, Yi Feng, Yuan Zhou, Wenbo Luo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

La escenificación del objeto fantástico de Uncanny Valley

Aisthesis
Este artículo presenta un análisis de caso centrado en Uncanny Valley de la compañía alemana Rimini Protokoll, una obra que pone en cuestión las convenciones teatrales al sustituir al actor-humano por un robot-réplica del dramaturgo Thomas Melle ...
Javier Ibarra
doaj   +1 more source

Circling Around the Uncanny Valley: Design Principles for Research Into the Relation Between Human Likeness and Eeriness

i-Perception, 2016
The uncanny valley effect (UVE) is a negative emotional response experienced when encountering entities that appear almost human. Research on the UVE typically investigates individual, or collections of, near human entities but may be prone to ...
Stephanie Lay, Nicola Brace, Graham Pike, Frank Pollick   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source