Jean‐Christophe Giger
Centre for Research in Anthropology, Algarve Biomedical Center, University of Algarve
Papers
11
Total Citations
397
H-Index
8
About
Jean-Christophe Giger is a social psychologist whose research sits at the dynamic intersection of human-robot interaction, social cognition, and applied ethics. His work centers on understanding how people perceive, evaluate, and form intentions to work alongside social robots — a question of growing urgency as robotic systems enter healthcare, workplaces, and everyday life. Giger has made substantial contributions to the measurement of attitudes toward robots, developing and validating cross-cultural adaptations of the Negative Attitudes Toward Robots Scale in both Portuguese and Polish contexts, tools now widely used by researchers across Europe. His most cited work (124 citations) examines the psychological predictors of intention to collaborate with robots, highlighting the underexplored roles of behavioral desire and anticipated emotions. His influential critical review of robot humanization (105 citations) stands out for its nuanced psychological perspective, questioning the assumption that making robots more human-like is inherently beneficial. More recently, Giger has ventured into robot ethics, exploring moral judgments in healthcare scenarios where robots mediate sensitive human interactions. His development of the Beliefs in Human Nature Uniqueness Scale further demonstrates his commitment to building rigorous theoretical and psychometric frameworks that help explain resistance — and openness — to increasingly humanlike machines.
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- 2Humanization of robots: Is it really such a good idea?105 citations · 2019
- 3Polish Version of the Negative Attitude Toward Robots Scale (NARS-PL)42 citations · 2015
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- 7Ethics 4.0: Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare Mediated by Social Robots14 citations · 2023
- 8Polish Version of the Negative Attitude Toward Robots Scale (NARS-PL)13 citations · 2015
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