@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {8192},
      author = {Ayalon, Oshrat and Hok, Hannah and Shaw, Alex and Gordon,  Goren},
      title = {When it is ok to give the Robot Less: Children’s Fairness  Intuitions Towards Robots},
      journal = {International Journal of Social Robotics},
      address = {2023-09-20},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {Children develop intuitions about fairness relatively  early in development. While we know that children believe  other humans care about distributional fairness,  considerably less is known about whether they believe other  agents, such as robots, do as well. In two experiments (N =  273) we investigated 4- to 9-year-old children’s intuitions  about whether robots would be upset about unfair treatment  as human children. Children were told about a scenario in  which resources were being split between a human child and  a target recipient: either another child or a robot across  two conditions. The target recipient (either child or  robot) received less than another child. They were then  asked to evaluate how fair the distribution was, and  whether the target recipient would be upset. Both  Experiment 1 and 2 used the same design, but Experiment 2  also included a video demonstrating the robot’s mechanistic  “robotic” movements. Our results show that children thought  it was more fair to share unequally when the disadvantaged  recipient was a robot rather than a child (Experiment 1 and  2). Furthermore, children thought that the child would be  more upset than the robot (Experiment 2). Finally, we found  that this tendency to treat these two conditions  differently became stronger with age (Experiment 2). These  results suggest that young children treat robots and  children similarly in resource allocation tasks, but  increasingly differentiate them with age. Specifically,  children evaluate inequality as less unfair when the target  recipient is a robot, and think that robots will be less  angry about inequality. },
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/8192},
}