Influences of Gender Role Identity on Negative Attitudes toward Robots A Survey in Japan

As a preliminary attempt to explore the influences of sexual orientation and gender identity on feelings and behavior toward robots, we conducted an online survey on 500 randomly selected Japanese monitors (age range, 20s to 60s) based on two psychological scales measuring negative attitudes toward robots and gender role identity. The results suggested that gender role identity, particularly perceived femininity, could affect attitudes toward robots more strongly than or have an interaction effect with biological sex.