Table 2 Percentage of children who passed each item on the Theory of Mind Scale in each condition.

From: Children’s attribution of mental states to humans and social robots assessed with the Theory of Mind Scale

ToM scale item

Human condition

Robot condition

Difference between the human and robot conditions

Diverse Desires

94.1***

60.8

X2(1, N = 102) = 16.22, p < 0.001***

Diverse Beliefs

82.4***

70.6**

X2(1, N = 102) = 1.96, p = 0.16

Knowledge Access

64.7*

58.8

X2(1, N = 102) = 0.37, p = 0.54

Contents False Belief

15.7***

33.3*

X2(1, N = 102) = 4.29, p = 0.038*

Hidden Emotion

35.3*

43.1

X2(1, N = 102) = 0.66, p = 0.42

  1. * Represents a p-value of less than 0.05, ** below 0.01, *** below 0.001 in comparison to chance.
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