This is the most up-to-date version of this scale.

Construct Summary

The authors define the construct as a measure of the central attributes implicated in human perception of robots. They state that there are three main dimensions of social perception of robots:

  1. warmth - defined as whether another [entity] intends to help or harm (p. 254)
    2. competence - defined as whether a[n] [entity] has the ability to help or harm (p. 254)
    3. discomfort (not explicitly defined)

Rating = 85%

Check? Guideline Item
✓ Is the construct defined?
✖ Does the final version of the items capture the construct as it has been defined by the authors?
✓ Is the item generation process discussed (e.g., literature review, Delphi method, crowd-sourcing)?
✖ Person to items 10:1 for the initial set of items?
✓ Did they perform an EFA, PCA, Rasch, or similar test to determine the item to factor relationship?
✓ Did they describe how they determined number of factors?
✓ Did they report the full initial set of items?
✓ Did they provide loadings (EFA) or item fits (Rasch) of all items?
✓ Is there a description of the item removal process (e.g., using infit/outfit, factor loading minimum value, or cross-loading values)?
✓ Did they list the final items included in the scale?
✓ Did they include a factor structure test (e.g., second EFA, CFA, DIF, test for unidimensionality when using Rasch, or similar)?
✓ Was a measure of reliability (e.g., Cronbach’s alpha, McDonalds Omega_h or Omega_t, Tarkkonen’s Rho) reported?
✓ Was a test of validity (e.g., predictive, concurrent, convergent, discriminant) reported?

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PAPER
Carpinella, C. M., Wyman, A. B., Perez, M. A., & Stroessner, S. J. (2017, March). The robotic social attributes scale (rosas) development and validation. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on human-robot interaction (pp. 254-262).


PDF of scale as well as instructions for administration and scoring are not readily available. Check the paper for more details or email hriscaledatabase@gmail.com to submit this information if you are the author of this scale.

Final Scale Items (18 total):

Competence
capable
responsible
interactive
reliable
competent
knowledgable

Warmth
happy
feeling
social
organic
compassionate
emotional

Discomfort
scary
strange
awkward
dangerous
awful
aggressive