This effect caused participants to more negatively react to a foreigner who criticized their home country in a study by MacDorman and Ishiguro.
This effect caused participants to more negatively react to a foreigner who criticized their home country in a study by MacDorman and Ishiguro. Christian Keysers used the contrast between leaf spot and leprosy to argue for the threat-avoidance underpinnings of this effect. Steckenfinger and Ghazanfar used "coo", "scream" and "neutral" faces to replicate this effect in macaque monkeys. The original paper on this topic contrasted the difference between shinwakan and bukimi and plotted the affinity of a prosthetic hand and a Bunraku puppet; that paper was written by Masahiro Mori and borrowed from a Freud essay on Hoffmann. This effect is blamed for the poor reception of the films The Polar Express and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. For 10 points, give this term for the eeriness felt in viewing a human-like robot.
This effect caused participants to more negatively react to a foreigner who criticized their home country in a study by MacDorman and Ishiguro.
the Uncanny Valley