Research grants

• Patients and agents: Perception of artificial entities’ minds in moral interactions

Aleksandra Świderska, PhD

Senior assistant

Interests

• human-robot interactions
• attitides towards AI
• ethical aspects of new technologies
• moral status of objects and animals

Selected recent publications

• Küster, D., & Swiderska, A. (2021). Seeing the mind of robots: Harm augments mind perception but benevolent intentions reduce dehumanisation of artificial entities in visual vignettes. International Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12715

• Swiderska, A., & Küster, D. (2020). Robots as malevolent moral agents: Harmful behavior results in dehumanization, not anthropomorphism. Cognitive Science, 44(2020), e12872. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12872

• Küster, D., Swiderska, A., & Gunkel, D. (2020). I saw it on YouTube! How online videos shape perceptions of mind, morality, and fears about robots. New Media & Society. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820954199

• Swiderska, A., Krumhuber, E. G., & Kappas, A. (2019). Behavioral and physiological responses to computers in the ultimatum game. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, 15(1), 33-45. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJTHI.2019010103

• Swiderska, A., & Küster, D. (2018). Avatars in pain: Visible harm enhances mind perception in humans and robots. Perception, 47(12), 1139-1152. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006618809919