The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity.

Technological advances in robotics have already produced robots that are indistinguishable from human beings. This technology is overcoming the uncanny valley, which refers to the unpleasant feelings that arise from humanoid robots that are similar in appearance to real humans to some extent. If hum...

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Autores principales:	Fumiya Yonemitsu, Kyoshiro Sasaki, Akihiko Gobara, Yuki Yamada
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e9df85dfe416413e9e59cfd4f3163f7a2021-12-02T20:15:23ZThe clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0254396https://doaj.org/article/e9df85dfe416413e9e59cfd4f3163f7a2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254396https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Technological advances in robotics have already produced robots that are indistinguishable from human beings. This technology is overcoming the uncanny valley, which refers to the unpleasant feelings that arise from humanoid robots that are similar in appearance to real humans to some extent. If humanoid robots with the same appearance are mass-produced and become commonplace, we may encounter circumstances in which people or human-like products have faces with the exact same appearance in the future. This leads to the following question: what impressions do clones elicit? To respond to this question, we examined what impressions images of people with the same face (clone images) induce. In the six studies we conducted, we consistently reported that clone images elicited higher eeriness than individuals with different faces; we named this new phenomenon the clone devaluation effect. We found that the clone devaluation effect reflected the perceived improbability of facial duplication. Moreover, this phenomenon was related to distinguishableness of each face, the duplication of identity, the background scene in observing clone faces, and avoidance reactions based on disgust sensitivity. These findings suggest that the clone devaluation effect is a product of multiple processes related to memory, emotion, and face recognition systems.Fumiya YonemitsuKyoshiro SasakiAkihiko GobaraYuki YamadaPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 7, p e0254396 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Fumiya Yonemitsu Kyoshiro Sasaki Akihiko Gobara Yuki Yamada The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity.
description	Technological advances in robotics have already produced robots that are indistinguishable from human beings. This technology is overcoming the uncanny valley, which refers to the unpleasant feelings that arise from humanoid robots that are similar in appearance to real humans to some extent. If humanoid robots with the same appearance are mass-produced and become commonplace, we may encounter circumstances in which people or human-like products have faces with the exact same appearance in the future. This leads to the following question: what impressions do clones elicit? To respond to this question, we examined what impressions images of people with the same face (clone images) induce. In the six studies we conducted, we consistently reported that clone images elicited higher eeriness than individuals with different faces; we named this new phenomenon the clone devaluation effect. We found that the clone devaluation effect reflected the perceived improbability of facial duplication. Moreover, this phenomenon was related to distinguishableness of each face, the duplication of identity, the background scene in observing clone faces, and avoidance reactions based on disgust sensitivity. These findings suggest that the clone devaluation effect is a product of multiple processes related to memory, emotion, and face recognition systems.
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author	Fumiya Yonemitsu Kyoshiro Sasaki Akihiko Gobara Yuki Yamada
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title	The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity.
title_short	The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity.
title_full	The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity.
title_fullStr	The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity.
title_full_unstemmed	The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity.
title_sort	clone devaluation effect: a new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/e9df85dfe416413e9e59cfd4f3163f7a
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The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity.

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