{"id":2184,"date":"2019-02-23T21:10:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T04:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2019-03-01T21:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T04:19:03","slug":"protective-feelings-for-a-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/?p=2184","title":{"rendered":"Protective Feelings for a Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Human beings are social by nature and tend to surround themselves with other people and animals whom they can share their lives with. Giving and receiving care and affection is a way to create stronger bonds for the human beings. Pets are also often considered part of the family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, would that affection and offer of protection extend to a robot? Especially when faced with the welfare of another human being? That&#8217;s the purpose of the research study being conducted at  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00c3\u00a4t M\u00c3\u00bcnchen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>\u00c2\u00a0Sari Nijssen said that the study set out to answer the following question: &#8220;Under what circumstances and to what extent would adults be willing to sacrifice robots to save human lives?&#8221;  It was all about posing a moral dilemma for the participants. What would they choose to save given what they knew about the human and the robot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?Science-Fair-Projects---Complete-Guide-to-a-Winning-Science-Project-Step-2---Topic-Research&amp;id=1784134\">scientific study<\/a> was seen to show that when the robot was humanoid and depicted as being compassionate and having perceptions of it&#8217;s own, people were much more likely to chose to save it. More so when they didn&#8217;t know the human beings and were familiar with the robot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human beings are social by nature and tend to surround themselves with other people and animals whom they can share their lives with. Giving and receiving care and affection is a way to create stronger bonds for the human beings. Pets are also often considered part of the family. However, would that affection and offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}