Hello and welcome to Speaking of Psychology, a podcast produced by the American Psychological Association.

I'm your host, Kim Mills.

Speaking of Psychology is a podcast for anyone with an interest in the science of psychology.

We talk to psychological researchers, practitioners, and educators about any and every aspect of psychology and its

application to the world around us. Dr. Jeff Hancock is founding director of the Stanford Social

Media Lab and a professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. Dr. Hancock

works on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media.

His research team specializes in using computational linguistics and experiments to understand

how the words we use can reveal psychological and social dynamics such as deception,

trust, intimacy, and social support.

Dr. Hancock is well known for his research on how people use deception with technology, from

sending texts and emails to detecting fake online reviews.

We're fortunate to have him here today with the American Psychological Association.

Welcome, Dr. Hancock.

Thank you, Kim.

So I wanted to start by talking a little bit about social robots and your work in that arena.

The first question is just to explain for the audience what's a social robot as opposed to any other robot?

Right, right. Yeah, social robot is really broadly defined.

Basically any robot that's situated with humans.

So a couple of definitions are that they should be socially evocative, sociable.

So any robot that's designed to essentially work or interact or evoke responses from humans.

So it's not a Roomba, for example.

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