Robopsychology
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Robopsychology is the fictional study of the personalities of intelligent machines. The term and the concept were popularised by Isaac Asimov in the short stories collected in I, Robot, which featured robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin, and whose plots largely revolved round the protagonists solving problems connected with intelligent robot behaviour. The stories also introduced Asimov's famous Three Laws of Robotics.
As described by Asimov, robopsychology appears to be a mixture of detailed mathematical analysis and old-fashioned psychology, applied to robots. Human psychology is also covered as on human interaciton with robots including the 'Frankenstein Complex' - the irrational fear that robots (or other creations) will turn on their creator.
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