Lonely Minds and Robotic Bonds: Effects of Human Loneliness on the Anthropomorphization of Robots

Benedikt Leichtmann; Emanuel Gollob; Magdalena May; Anna Paschmanns; Martina Mara

doi:10.1007/s12369-025-01210-z

Lonely Minds and Robotic Bonds: Effects of Human Loneliness on the Anthropomorphization of Robots

Benedikt Leichtmann^*
, Emanuel Gollob
, Magdalena May
, Anna Paschmanns
, Martina Mara^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

LIT Robopsychology Lab

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Original language	English
Article number	110066
Pages (from-to)	627-653
Number of pages	27
Journal	International Journal of Social Robotics
Volume	17
Issue number	4
Early online date	01 Mar 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-025-01210-z
Publication status	Published - Apr 2025

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102013 Human-computer interaction
501012 Media psychology
501002 Applied psychology
202035 Robotics
102001 Artificial intelligence
508016 Science communication
509026 Digitalisation research

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Digital Transformation

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