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Machines and Mindlessness

Machines and Mindlessness: Social Responses to Computers

Following Langer (1992), this article reviews a series of experimental studies that demonstrate that individuals mindlessly apply social rules and expectations to computers. The first set of studies illustrates how individuals overuse human social categories, applying gender stereotypes to computers and ethnically identifying with computer agents. The second set demonstrates that people exhibit...

Fear-then-relief, mindlessness, and cognitive deficits

The assumption that mindlessness underlies the effectiveness of the ‘fear-then-relief’ social influence technique has been verified in four studies. The first two experiments indicated that compliance of those experiment participants who were made to function on the thoughtful level under a ‘fear-thenrelief’ condition decreases to the level observed in the control group. The other two experimen...

Signal regularity and the mindlessness model of vigilance.

Robertson, Manly, Andrade, Baddeley, and Yiend (1997) have proposed that detection failures in vigilance tasks result from a 'mindless' withdrawal of attentional effort from the monitoring assignment. To explore that view, they modified the traditional vigilance task, in which observers make button-press responses to signify the detection of rarely occurring critical signals, to one in which bu...

The Mindfulness and Mindlessness in Mobile Business Intelligence Adoption

Mobile business intelligence (m-BI) is a hot topic attracting the attention of many companies. Little is known about the main motivations that drive a company to adopt an innovation in general and specifically that kind of study is lacking within the mobile BI field, whose research is still in its early stages. This paper has two main contributions: first, the motivations which drive an organiz...