While people prefer to see jobs go to other humans rather than robots, it seems the opposite is true when it comes to their own jobs. This is a finding of new research from Stefano Puntoni, professor of marketing at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, released today in a co-authored article in Nature Human Behaviour. It reveals that people experience more negative feelings when they are replaced by another person than when they are replaced by a robot. This creates a psychological incentive for people to prefer being replaced by robots. "This is the first paper to explore the… [Continue Reading]
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