Table 5 Performance per Item on the Property Projection Task .

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

Item

Mean

SD

T-test

Human

7.19***

1.13

t(109) = 29.64, p < 0.001, d = 2.83***

Rodent

5.92***

1.50

t(109) = 13.44, p < 0.001, d = 1.28***

Humanoid Robot

3.09***

1.70

t(109) = −5.63, p < 0.001, d = −0.54***

Non-humanoid Robot

3.05***

1.74

t(109) = −5.76, p < 0.001, d = −0.55***

Car

1.87***

1.61

t(109) = −13.87, p < 0.001, d = −1.32***

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