The psychology of user reliance on anthropomorphic robots: Affective dissonance, cognitive load, and enactive sense-making

Ankit Mehrotra, Nourah O. Alshaghdali, Babak Taheri, Nidhi Sahore, Adrienn Dernóczi-Polyák

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10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107764
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2026-10
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Acta Psychologica
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Elsevier BV
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@article{allodium:10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107764,
  title = {The psychology of user reliance on anthropomorphic robots: Affective dissonance, cognitive load, and enactive sense-making},
  author = {Ankit Mehrotra and Nourah O. Alshaghdali and Babak Taheri and Nidhi Sahore and Adrienn Dernóczi-Polyák},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Acta Psychologica},
  doi = {10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107764},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107764}
}

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TI  - The psychology of user reliance on anthropomorphic robots: Affective dissonance, cognitive load, and enactive sense-making
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AU  - Nidhi Sahore
AU  - Adrienn Dernóczi-Polyák
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JO  - Acta Psychologica
DO  - 10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107764
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Mehrotra, A., Alshaghdali, N. O., Taheri, B., Sahore, N., & Dernóczi-Polyák, A. (2026). The psychology of user reliance on anthropomorphic robots: Affective dissonance, cognitive load, and enactive sense-making. Acta Psychologica. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107764

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