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Meta-cognition about social robots could be difficult, making self-reports about some cognitive processes less useful

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2023

Matthew Rueben*
Affiliation:
Shiley School of Engineering, University of Portland, Portland, OR 97203, USA rueben@up.edu https://matthewrueben.github.io/

Abstract

There are reasons to suspect that meta-cognition about construing social robots as depictions would be more difficult – or absent – than Clark and Fischer discuss. Self-reports about the cognitive processes involved might therefore tend to be incomplete or inaccurate, limiting their usefulness as measures.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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