Understanding people’s perceptions and inferences about social robots and, thus, their responses toward them, constitutes one of the most pervasive research themes in the field of Human–Robot interaction today. We herein augment and extend this line of work by investigating, for the first time, the novel proposition that one’s implicit self-theory orientation (underlying beliefs about the malleability of self-attributes, such as one’s intelligence), can influence one’s perceptions of emerging social robots developed for everyday use. We show that those who view self-attributes as fixed (entity theorists) express greater robot anxiety than those who view self-attributes as malleable (incremental theorists). This result holds even when controlling for well-known covariate influences, like prior robot experience, media exposure to science fiction, technology commitment, and certain demographic factors. However, only marginal effects were obtained for both attitudinal and intentional robot acceptance, respectively. In addition, we show that incremental theorists respond more favorably to social robots, compared to entity theorists. Furthermore, we find evidence indicating that entity theorists exhibit more favorable responses to a social robot positioned as a servant. We conclude with a discussion about our findings.

理解人们对社交机器人的看法和推断，并由此了解他们对社交机器人的反应，是当今人类与机器人交互领域中最普遍的研究主题之一。我们在这里通过首次调查一个新的命题来扩大和扩展这一工作范围，该命题是一个人的内隐自我理论取向（对自我属性的可延展性的基本信念，例如一个人的智力）会影响一个人对新兴事物的看法。开发用于日常使用的社交机器人。我们证明，那些将自我属性视为固定的（实体理论家）比那些将自我属性视为可塑的人（增量理论家）表现出更大的机器人焦虑感。即使在控制众所周知的协变量影响（例如先前的机器人经验，媒体对科幻小说的曝光，技术承诺和某些人口因素。然而，态度和故意接受机器人分别仅获得了边际效应。此外，我们证明，与实体理论家相比，渐进式理论家对社交机器人的反应更好。此外，我们发现证据表明，实体理论家对定位为仆人的社交机器人表现出了更有利的反应。最后，我们讨论了我们的发现。我们发现有证据表明，实体理论家对定位为仆人的社交机器人表现出了更有利的反应。最后，我们讨论了我们的发现。我们发现有证据表明，实体理论家对定位为仆人的社交机器人表现出了更有利的反应。最后，我们讨论了我们的发现。