Revisiting the uncanny valley theory: Developing and validating an alternative to the Godspeed indices

By Chin-Chang Ho, Karl Frederic MacDorman. Computers in Human Behavior, 2010

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The thing that should not be: predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions (2011, background): “Contribution to the understanding of the uncanny valley The uncanny valley has many potential dimensions (MacDorman and Ishiguro, 2006; Ho and MacDorman, 2010; Pollick, 2009).”
The Robotic Social Attributes Scale (RoSAS): Development and Validation (2017, background): “Warmth has been shown to be a focal underlying dimension of robot perception as well [4].”
Individual differences predict sensitivity to the uncanny valley (2015, methodology): “Additional inclusion criteria were 18 or older, native English speaker, and 20/40 vision or better with correction.”
Enhancing hospitality experience with service robots: the mediating role of rapport building (2019, background): “Uncanny valley theory suggests that the increasing level of anthropomorphism will ﬁ rst improve the impression of robots by humans and then cause hatred or fear after anthropomorphism reaches a certain point (Ho & MacDorman, 2010).”