Empirical evidence has shown that peer pressure can impact human risk-taking behavior. With robots becoming ever more present in a range of human settings, it is crucial to examine whether robots can have a similar impact. Using the balloon analogue risk task (BART), participants' risk-taking behavior was measured when alone, in the presence of a silent robot, or in the presence of a robot that actively encouraged risk-taking behavior. In the BART, shown to be a proxy for real risk-taking behavior, participants must weigh risk against potential payout. Our results reveal that participants who were encouraged by the robot did take more risks, while the mere presence of the robot in the robot control condition did not entice participants to show more risk-taking behavior. Our results point to both possible benefits and perils that robots might pose to human decision-making. Although increasing risk-taking behavior in some cases has obvious advantages, it could also have detrimental consequences that are only now starting to emerge.

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机器人让我做到了：人机交互和冒险行为

经验证据表明，同伴压力会影响人类冒险行为。随着机器人在各种人类环境中的应用越来越广泛，至关重要的是要检查机器人是否可以产生类似的影响。使用气球模拟风险任务（BART），可以单独测量参与者，在无声机器人的存在下或在积极鼓励冒险行为的机器人的存在下的参与者的冒险行为。在BART被证明是实际冒险行为的代理者，参与者必须权衡风险与潜在支出之间的关系。我们的结果表明，受机器人鼓励的参与者确实承担了更大的风险，而仅在机器人控制条件下出现机器人并没有诱使参与者表现出更多的冒险行为。我们的结果指出了机器人可能给人类决策带来的潜在利益和风险。尽管在某些情况下增加冒险行为具有明显的优势，但它也可能带来有害后果，直到现在才开始出现。