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Article History

Received: 16 January 2024

Accepted: 19 September 2024

First Online: 28 October 2024

Competing interests

: The author declares no competing interests.

: The study was approved by the IRB office at the University of Washington on May 30, 2019. The IRB ID is STUDY00007637. The title of the study is The Pygmalion Paradigm Test (for participants: Artificial Humans Test).

: Informed consent was collected electronically as a condition for participation in the behavioral survey and was approved by IRB. The consent form first explained the source of funding for the study. It assured confidentiality of research information to participants, stating that while the responses might be published, identifiers (such as IP addresses and Amazon MTurk worker IDs) would not be included in the published data. The participants were explained they may refuse to participate and are free to withdraw from the study at any time without penalty or loss of benefits. The researcher’s contact information and contact of the Human Subjects Division at the University of Washington were offered to participants in case they consider to be harmed from being in this research or if they had subsequent questions about the research.