タカハシ　ヒデユキ   Hideyuki Takahashi   高橋　英之    所属   追手門学院大学  理工学部 情報工学科    職種   准教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2016/11
形態種別	論文
査読	査読あり
標題	Semantic Differential Scale Method Can Reveal Multi-Dimensional Aspects of Mind Perception
執筆形態	共著・編著（代表編著を除く）
掲載誌名	FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
出版社・発行元	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
巻・号・頁	7,pp.1717
著者・共著者	Hideyuki Takahashi,Midori Ban,Minoru Asada
概要	As humans, we tend to perceive minds in both living and non-living entities, such as robots. From a questionnaire developed in a previous mind perception study, authors found that perceived minds could be located on two dimensions "experience" and "agency." This questionnaire allowed the assessment of how we perceive minds of various entities from a multi-dimensional point of view. In this questionnaire, subjects had to evaluate explicit mental capacities of target characters (e.g., capacity to feel hunger). However, we sometimes perceive minds in non-living entities, even though we cannot attribute these evidently biological capacities to the entity. In this study, we performed a large-scale web survey to assess mind perception by using the semantic differential scale method. We revealed that two mind dimensions "emotion" and "intelligence," respectively, corresponded to the two mind dimensions (experience and agency) proposed in a previous mind perception study. We did this without having to ask about specific mental capacities. We believe that the semantic differential scale is a useful method to assess the dimensions of mind perception especially for non-living entities that are hard to be attributed to biological capacities.
DOI	10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01717
ISSN	1664-1078
PMID	27853445