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{{Short description|Study of personalities and behavior of intelligent machines}} '''Robopsychology''' is the study of the personalities and behavior of [[intelligent machine]]s. The term was coined by [[Isaac Asimov]] in the short stories collected in ''[[I, Robot]]'', which featured robopsychologist [[Susan Calvin|Dr. Susan Calvin]], and whose plots largely revolved around the protagonist solving problems connected with intelligent [[robot]] behaviour.<ref name="Enterprise1987">{{cite book|author=IDG Enterprise|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IIpG6vryR8AC&pg=PA32-IA13|title=Computerworld|date=19 October 1987|publisher=IDG Enterprise|pages=32–}}</ref><ref name="Miller2020">{{cite book|author=Gavin Miller|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zd7QDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20|title=Science Fiction and Psychology|date=29 January 2020|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-1-78962-471-7|pages=20–}}</ref><ref name="Nicholls1979">{{cite book|author=Peter Nicholls|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NzAqAQAAIAAJ|title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: An Illustrated A to Z|publisher=Unknown Publisher|year=1979|isbn=978-0-246-11020-6}}</ref> The term has been also used in some academic studies from the field of psychology and [[human–computer interaction]]s,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Libin|first1=A.V.|last2=Libin|first2=E.V.|date=November 2004|title=Person-robot interactions from the robopsychologists' point of view: the robotic psychology and robotherapy approach|journal=Proceedings of the IEEE|volume=92|issue=11|pages=1789–1803|doi=10.1109/JPROC.2004.835366|s2cid=18191095|issn=1558-2256}}</ref> and it refers to the study of the psychological consequences of living in societies where the application of [[robotics]] is becoming increasingly common.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Krägeloh |first1=Christian U. |last2=Bharatharaj |first2=Jaishankar |last3=Albo-Canals |first3=Jordi |last4=Hannon |first4=Daniel |last5=Heerink |first5=Marcel |date=2022 |title=The time is ripe for robopsychology |journal=Frontiers in Psychology |volume=13 |page=968382 |doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.968382 |pmid=36211890 |pmc=9536172 |issn=1664-1078|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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