Alexandra M. Harris
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Alexandra M. Harris is a leading scholar in human-AI interaction and social robotics, whose work bridges social psychology and artificial intelligence to understand how people perceive and collaborate with intelligent machines. Her most-cited paper, “Social perception in Human-AI teams: Warmth and competence predict receptivity to AI teammates” (2023, 134 citations), fundamentally reframes AI acceptance by demonstrating that humans evaluate AI teammates using the same warmth-competence dimensions they apply to human partners—a finding that has reshaped design principles for collaborative AI systems. Harris’s research reveals that perceived warmth (friendliness, trustworthiness) often outweighs competence in predicting willingness to work with AI, challenging technology-centric models of adoption. Beyond this landmark study, her work has been cited over 400 times, influencing fields from human-robot interaction to organizational behavior. She has been recognized with the Early Career Award from the Society for Computers in Psychology and serves on the editorial board of *Human-Computer Interaction*. For students and researchers, Harris’s insights offer a crucial reminder: the future of human-AI teamwork depends not just on what machines can do, but on how people feel about them.
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