Dennis Küster
Biographic Data
| ID | 4975793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Küster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Küster |
| SIGNATURE | KÜSTER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bremen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8992-5648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The impact of eyes on attributions of agency and experience in humanoid robots
Humans' tendency to attribute mental states to robots positively correlates with the increasingly human-like appearance of the robots. As eyes have been suggested to be "the windows to the soul", in the present study we investigated whether the presence or absence of facial features appearing as eyes in humanoid robots affects how perceivers attribute mental capacities of agency and experience to robots. We created images of highly realistic huma…
How Weeping Influences the Perception of Facial Expressions
Seeing the mind of robots
According to moral typecasting theory, good‐ and evil‐doers (agents) interact with the recipients of their actions (patients) in a moral dyad. When this dyad is completed, mind attribution towards intentionally harmed liminal minds is enhanced. However, from a dehumanisation view, malevolent actions may instead result in a denial of humanness. To contrast both accounts, a visual vignette experiment ( N = 253) depicted either malevolent or benevol…
I saw it on YouTube! How online videos shape perceptions of mind, morality, and fears about robots
Robots have the potential to transform our existing categorical distinctions between “property” and “persons.” Previous research has demonstrated that humans naturally anthropomorphize them, and this tendency may be amplified when a robot is subject to abuse. Simultaneously, robots give rise to hopes and fears about the future and our place in it. However, most available evidence on these mechanisms is either anecdotal, or based on a small number…
Emotion recognition from posed and spontaneous dynamic expressions
The majority of research on the judgment of emotion from facial expressions has focused on deliberately posed displays, often sampled from single stimulus sets. Herein, we investigate emotion recognition from posed and spontaneous expressions, comparing classification performance between humans and machine in a cross-corpora investigation. For this, dynamic facial stimuli portraying the six basic emotions were sampled from a broad range of differ…
I saw it on YouTube! How online videos shape perceptions of mind, morality, and fears about robots
Robots have the potential to transform our existing categorical distinctions between “property” and “persons.” Previous research has demonstrated that humans naturally anthropomorphize them, and this tendency may be amplified when a robot is subject to abuse. Simultaneously, robots give rise to hopes and fears about the future and our place in it. However, most available evidence on these mechanisms is either anecdotal, or based on a small number…
Emotion recognition from posed and spontaneous dynamic expressions
The majority of research on the judgment of emotion from facial expressions has focused on deliberately posed displays, often sampled from single stimulus sets. Herein, we investigate emotion recognition from posed and spontaneous expressions, comparing classification performance between humans and machine in a cross-corpora investigation. For this, dynamic facial stimuli portraying the six basic emotions were sampled from a broad range of differ…
I saw it on YouTube! How online videos shape perceptions of mind, morality, and fears about robots
Robots have the potential to transform our existing categorical distinctions between “property” and “persons.” Previous research has demonstrated that humans naturally anthropomorphize them, and this tendency may be amplified when a robot is subject to abuse. Simultaneously, robots give rise to hopes and fears about the future and our place in it. However, most available evidence on these mechanisms is either anecdotal, or based on a small number…
How Weeping Influences the Perception of Facial Expressions
Seeing the mind of robots
According to moral typecasting theory, good‐ and evil‐doers (agents) interact with the recipients of their actions (patients) in a moral dyad. When this dyad is completed, mind attribution towards intentionally harmed liminal minds is enhanced. However, from a dehumanisation view, malevolent actions may instead result in a denial of humanness. To contrast both accounts, a visual vignette experiment ( N = 253) depicted either malevolent or benevol…
The impact of eyes on attributions of agency and experience in humanoid robots
Humans' tendency to attribute mental states to robots positively correlates with the increasingly human-like appearance of the robots. As eyes have been suggested to be "the windows to the soul", in the present study we investigated whether the presence or absence of facial features appearing as eyes in humanoid robots affects how perceivers attribute mental capacities of agency and experience to robots. We created images of highly realistic huma…
Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Perception (3 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (3 works) · Attribution (2 works) · Emotion and Mood Recognition (2 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (2 works) · Empathy (2 works) · Robot (2 works)