Negative Attitudes toward Robots Scale.
NARS
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.
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- 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
- 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
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