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homework:
Another social experiment involved a game competition between humans and a robot. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon university tested whether a robot’s trash talk would affect humans playing in a game against a machine. To trash talk is to talk about someone in a negative or insulting way usually to get them to make a mistake. A humanoid robot named “happier” was programmed to say things to a human opponent, like you are terrible player. Another robot statement was over the course of the game your playing has become confused. A study involved each of the humans play a game with the robot 35 different times. The game was walled guards and treasures which is used to study decision making. The study found the players criticized by the robot generally performed worse in the games than humans receiving praise.