Nicolas Spatola
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Nicolas Spatola joined SCIoI as a postdoctoral researcher in October 2019, working on the project From understanding learners’ adaptive motivation and emotion to designing social learning companions under the supervision of Prof. Rebecca Lazarides. His research interests include cognitive psychology, linguistics, social robotics, and human-machine interaction.
At SCIoI, his research focused on questions at the intersection of human cognition and interaction with artificial systems, with particular attention to how people perceive, interpret, and respond to robotic agents.
Nicolas Spatola was a member of SCIoI until February 2020.
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Spatola, N., Chevalère, J., & Lazarides, R. (2021). Human vs computer: What effect does the source of information have on cognitive performance and achievement goal orientation? Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 12(1), 175–186. https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2021-0012
Spatola, N., & Wudarczyk, O. A. (2021). Ascribing emotions to robots: Explicit and implicit attribution of emotions and perceived robot anthropomorphism. Computers in Human Behavior, 124, 106934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106934
Spatola, N., & Wudarczyk, O. A. (2021). Implicit Attitudes Towards Robots Predict Explicit Attitudes, Semantic Distance Between Robots and Humans, Anthropomorphism, and Prosocial Behavior: From Attitudes to Human–Robot Interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 13(5), 1149–1159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00701-5
