Otakuism and the appeal of sex robots
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-195893
- Social robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in everyday life and sex robots are a sub-category of especially high public interest and controversy. Starting from the concept of the otaku, a term from Japanese youth culture that describes secluded persons with a high affinity for fictional manga characters, we examine individual differences behind sex robot appeal (anime and manga fandom, interest in Japanese culture, preference for indoor activities, shyness). In an online-experiment, 261 participants read one out of three randomlySocial robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in everyday life and sex robots are a sub-category of especially high public interest and controversy. Starting from the concept of the otaku, a term from Japanese youth culture that describes secluded persons with a high affinity for fictional manga characters, we examine individual differences behind sex robot appeal (anime and manga fandom, interest in Japanese culture, preference for indoor activities, shyness). In an online-experiment, 261 participants read one out of three randomly assigned descriptions of future technologies (sex robot, nursing robot, genetically modified organism) and reported on their overall evaluation, eeriness, and contact/purchase intentions. Higher anime and manga fandom was associated with higher appeal for all three future technologies. For our male subsample, sex robots and GMOs stood out as shyness yielded a particularly strong relationship to contact/purchase intentions for these new technologies.…
Author: | Markus Appel, Caroline Marker, Martina Mara |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-195893 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften (Philos., Psycho., Erziehungs- u. Gesell.-Wissensch.) / Institut Mensch - Computer - Medien |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in Psychology |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
Year of Completion: | 2019 |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 569 |
Source: | Frontiers in Psychology, 2019, 10:569. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00569 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00569 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Tag: | anime; fan culture; manga; otakuism; sex robots; shyness; uncanny valley |
Release Date: | 2020/03/02 |
Date of first Publication: | 2019/03/29 |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds / Förderzeitraum 2019 | |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |