01.09.2026journal-article
Frontiers in Psychology
Anthropomorphic cueing, social evaluation, and threat in stated willingness to collaborate with AI
AI systems are increasingly presented as team members, but humanlike cues may not uniformly increase willingness to collaborate. We examined how assigned cue packages are related to stated collaboration intention, social evaluations, and threat. Across six two-condition studies ( N = 1,128), we examined textual cues, imagination instructions, and lower- versus higher-ABOT image-set assignments in imagined collaboration contexts. We distinguished assigned cues from subjective anthropomorphism and measured intention …