Emmanuele Tidoni
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Emmanuele Tidoni
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Social Neuroscience | University of Leeds | #Neuroscience #Robotics #HTLab | https://mastodon.social/@letstido
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Happy to share our latest study on (Un)intentionality bias in action observation! We found that people perceive ambiguous actions as intentional—especially when posture aligns with the goal. This bias shifts with schizotypal cognitive traits.

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(Un)intentionality bias in action observation revisited
When observing individuals in action, we often infer their goals and intentions. Yet, in situations where actions are ambiguous and could be either in…
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🚀 #OpenScience paper
How do top-down beliefs about artificial agents shape how we interpret their gaze?

Eye contact+repeated gaze shifts cued communicative #intent, but when #gaze was ambiguous, people saw intentionality only if they believed the agent was 🙋 human (vs 🤖 #AI).

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The influence of human agency beliefs on ascribing gaze-signalled communicative intent
Scientific Reports - The influence of human agency beliefs on ascribing gaze-signalled communicative intent
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October 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Happy to share our latest study on (Un)intentionality bias in action observation! We found that people perceive ambiguous actions as intentional—especially when posture aligns with the goal. This bias shifts with schizotypal cognitive traits.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(Un)intentionality bias in action observation revisited
When observing individuals in action, we often infer their goals and intentions. Yet, in situations where actions are ambiguous and could be either in…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🤖 New Study on how people perceive Humanoid Robots!

How do we distinguish between humans and #humanoid robots?

Discover more about this work and big thanks to amazing people @escross.bsky.social @richramseyphd.bsky.social @scandle.bsky.social:

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Are humanoid robots perceived as mindless mannequins?
The shape and texture of humans and humanoid robots provide perceptual information that help us to appropriately categorise these stimuli. However, it…
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November 22, 2024 at 8:13 AM