Robots, Rebukes, and Relationships: Confucian Ethics and the Study of Human-Robot Interactions

The status and functioning of shame is contested in moral psychology. In much anglophone philosophy psychology, it presumed to be largely destructive, while Confucian many East Asian communities, positively associated with development. Recent work human-robot interaction offers a unique opportunity investigate how functions controlling for confounding variables interpersonal interaction. One research program suggests strategy using robots rebuke participants, but results from experiments educational technologies imply different potentially opposing account shame’s role personal By digging deeper into the details theorizing about shame, I identify unifying explanation these apparently conflicting results. conclude by offering suggestions future empirical interactions further