SciShow Psych: Spelunking in the Uncanny Valley

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Go to http://curiositystream.com/Psych to start streaming What Is Reality. Use the promo code ‘psych’ during the sign-up process to get your first 31 days free. With all the CGI cat-humans going around on the internet these days, it’s hard to deny the sense of yikes we get that has become known as the uncanny valley. But what is this phenomenon, and why do we feel it? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/gpr-gpr0000056.pdf https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/the-uncanny-valley https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027715300640 http://www.macdorman.com/kfm/writings/pubs/MacDorman2006AndroidScience.pdf https://theconversation.com/uncanny-valley-why-we-find-human-like-robots-and-dolls-so-creepy-50268 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130901-is-the-uncanny-valley-real https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/7/4/413/1738009 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213000113 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027712001278 Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Repliee_Q2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Actroid-DER_01.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MacDorman_Uncanny_Valley_Experiment_1_Robot_1_Graph.PNG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walking-in-the-uncanny-valley-importance-of-the-attractiveness-on-the-acceptance-of-a-robot-as-a-Video1.ogv https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/789094 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Telenoid%E2%84%A2_R4_(tele-presence_robot_for_mobile_communication)_by_ATR_Hiroshi_Ishiguro_Laboratory,_exhibited_at_Miraikan_(2015-06-15_03.48.40_by_Franklin_Heijnen).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Repliee_Q2_face.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Repliee_R1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ars_electronica_center_2012_Hugvie_01.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ever3inhanbokinmarch2009.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Actroid_4.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otonaroid%C2%AE_(adult_android),_a_teleoperated_android_robot_that_lets_you_talk_to_other_through_an_android,_exhibited_at_Miraikan_(2015-06-15_03.53.09_by_Franklin_Heijnen).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HRP-4C_-_Cybernetic_Dancer_-_Futur_en_Seine_2011_(2011-06-26_15.43.29).jpg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/34135.php?from=189816 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Information-Driven-Self-Organization-of-Complex-Robotic-Behaviors-pone.0063400.s003.ogv https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASIMO_-_Dancing.webm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:130514_Traditioneel_BZ_kostuum_3019_(12905536193).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Real_Doll_(Unsplash).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wax_figure_of_Frank_De_Boer*.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wax_figure_of_Cheryl.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sissi_im_Panoptikum_Hamburg.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wax_statue_of_Oscar_Wilde,_National_Wax_Museum_Plus,_Dublin.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sophia_at_the_AI_for_Good_Global_Summit_2018_(27254369347)_(cropped).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sigmund_Freud,_by_Max_Halberstadt_(cropped).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Female_Bunraku_puppet_Japan,_early_20th_century.JPG


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