Article: Emotional responses to computers: experiences in unfairness, anger, and spite (1).

 
 Although some educational technology theorists and researchers 
 view technology as a set of neutral tools, recent theoretical 
 and empirical work has begun to examine technology as a social 
 actor in relationships with humans. Drawing on recent research 
 on people's psychological responses to interactive media, this 
 study looked at people's emotional responses to computers when 
 they felt that the computer had cheated them. Specifically we 
 looked at whether people would act spitefully towards a 
 computer (by attempting to punish it) when treated unfairly in 
 an ultimatum bargaining game. Our ...

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