Hongyue Li
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Hongyue Li’s research lies at the intersection of social cognition, human-robot interaction, and moral psychology, exploring how people perceive and attribute mental states to non-human agents. Her most-cited work, “The roles of cognitive dissonance and normative reasoning in attributions of minds to robots” (2024, 6 citations), challenges the assumption that people simply default to anthropomorphizing intelligent machines. Instead, Li demonstrates that individuals engage in complex normative reasoning—often driven by cognitive dissonance—when deciding whether a robot deserves a mind, particularly when its behavior violates moral or social expectations. This contribution reframes mind attribution as a dynamic, socially embedded process rather than a reflexive one. Li’s work is notable for bridging psychological theory with emerging ethical debates around artificial intelligence, offering a nuanced framework for understanding how humans reconcile the tension between treating robots as tools versus moral beings. Her findings have implications for the design of socially aware AI and for policies governing human-robot relationships. With growing attention to her research, Li is establishing herself as a key voice in the study of how technology reshapes fundamental social cognition.
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