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Article: Emotional responses to computers: experiences in unfairness, anger, and spite (1).
- Article from:
- Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
- Author:
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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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