This study investigates the effect of relative status on responsibility attributions in situations in which people and a humanoid robot collectively contribute to an outcome. A 3 × 2 experiment was conducted using the robot status (supervisor, peer, and subordinate) and the attribution target (robot or self) as independent variables. Fifty-four students from a university campus participated in the experiment. The participants were randomly assigned into three groups with balanced gender. In the experiment, the participants and the humanoid robot Nao cooperated on joint tasks of product poster selection. Subsequently, the participants were instructed to allocate the causal responsibility between themselves and the humanoid robot for a specified dyadic performance success or failure. Results show that the relative status moderated participants' self-serving biases. Participants who cooperated with a supervisor robot claimed credit for dyadic success but blamed the robot for dyadic failure, whereas participants who cooperated with a peer or subordinate robot claimed both credit for dyadic success and blame for dyadic failure. In addition, the participants' sense of responsibility mediated the relationships between relative status and responsibility attributions. As the status of the humanoid robot increased, participants felt less responsible for the task performance; consequently, they tended to attribute the outcome more to the robot and less to themselves. Finally, the participants’ power distance orientation moderated the relationships between relative status and responsibility attributions, namely that the relationships were stronger for participants with higher power distance orientation.

这项研究调查了在人和类人机器人共同为结果做出贡献的情况下，相对地位对责任归因的影响。使用机器人状态（主管，对等和下属）和归因目标（机器人或自我）作为自变量进行了3×2实验。来自大学校园的54名学生参加了该实验。参与者被随机分为三组，性别均衡。在实验中，参与者和人形机器人Nao合作完成了产品海报选择的共同任务。随后，指示参与者为特定的二元表演成功或失败在他们和类人机器人之间分配因果责任。结果表明，相对地位适度的参与者 自我服务的偏见。与主管机器人合作的参与者称赞其成功取得成功，但将机器人归咎于二元失败，而与同级或从属机器人合作的参与者则称赞其取得了成功，并归咎于二元失败。此外，参与者的责任感介导了相对地位与责任归因之间的关系。随着人形机器人状态的提高，参与者对任务执行的责任越来越小。因此，他们倾向于将结果更多地归因于机器人，而很少归因于自己。最后，参与者的权力距离取向缓和了相对地位和责任归属之间的关系，