Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 2 · Licensed source edition
Persuasion, pride and prejudice: factors associated with students’ resistance to a social robot’s incorrect mathematical solution
Originally published 2026-09-10 · Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/frobt.2026.1901093 ↗
AI / system type
Social robot; human-operated/Wizard-of-Oz
Child-facing evidenceExamines children or child-focused systems. Transfer to everyday family life must be assessed separately.
The AI connection
A Furhat robot defended a wrong solution; the study discusses implications for conversational AI persuasion.
Why this reading matters
Makes over-deference visible in a concrete mathematics task and carefully separates observations from hypotheses.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Can my teenager explain why an AI answer is wrong even when the system sounds confident?
Maps to Independence through maintaining reasoned disagreement when a fluent robot defends an incorrect answer.
Study context
22 students from one Swedish technical upper-secondary class; 19 male
Age / stage: Mean age 16.5 years
Read with three questions
- What task-relevant evidence did students have before the robot disagreed?
- Why are the seven proposed explanations hypotheses rather than tested predictors?
- How does Wizard-of-Oz control limit application to autonomous AI?
Keep the limits in view
Small gender-imbalanced single-class sample; descriptive exploratory patterns cannot establish causal predictors. Human-operated robot dialogue is not a live LLM reliability test.
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Pablo González-Oliveras; Olov Engwall; Ali Reza Majlesi (2026). Persuasion, pride and prejudice: factors associated with students’ resistance to a social robot’s incorrect mathematical solution Frontiers in Robotics and AI. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2026.1901093
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