Working with an Online Artificial Partner Enhances Implicit and Reduces Explicit Sense of Agency
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Working with an artificial agent reduced explicit feelings of control but enhanced implicit sense of agency. This suggests explicit and implicit agency measures capture different aspects of the experience of control.
Area Of Science
- Cognitive Psychology
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Artificial Intelligence
Background
- Sense of agency (SoA) is the feeling of causing events.
- Social presence can reduce SoA via diffusion of responsibility, termed 'interfered agency'.
- Understanding SoA with artificial agents is crucial for human-AI collaboration.
Purpose Of The Study
- Investigate explicit and implicit measures of agency in an interfered agency paradigm.
- Examine how interacting with an artificial agent influences SoA.
- Differentiate effects of implied agency from mere social presence.
Main Methods
- Two online experiments using an interfered agency paradigm.
- Participants collaborated with a virtual artificial agent in a shared task.
- Measured explicit agency (control ratings) and implicit agency (temporal binding).
Main Results
- Participants reported less explicit control when working with the artificial agent.
- Temporal binding, an implicit measure, increased, suggesting a stronger SoA.
- Effects were driven by the agent's implied ability to act, not social presence alone.
Conclusions
- Explicit agency reflects conscious responsibility attribution.
- Implicit agency reflects the strength of action-effect representations.
- Findings advance understanding of SoA and social agency with artificial partners.
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