Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

It is well known that people tend to anthropomorphize in inter-pretations and explanations of the behavior of robots and otherinteractive artifacts. Scientific discussions of this phenomenontend to confuse the overlapping notions of folk psychology,theory of mind, and the intentional stance. We provide a clarifi-cation of the terminology, outline different research questions,and propose a methodology for making progress in studyingthe intentional stance toward robots empirically.