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Negative Attitudes toward Robots Scale.

NARS

What it measures
Negative attitudes toward robots across three subscales: attitudes toward situations of interaction with robots, toward the social influence of robots, toward emotions in interaction with robots.
Length and format
14 items. 5-pt Likert agreement (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
15+ langs incl. EN, DE, NL, IT, ES, PT, TR, ZH, KO, PL
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Nomura, T., Kanda, T., & Suzuki, T. (2006). Experimental investigation into influence of negative attitudes toward robots on human-robot interaction. AI & Society, 20(2), 138-150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-005-0012-7

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-005-0012-7

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