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In addition, no studies have considered implicit measures of attitudes toward robots, which are indicative of uncontrolled cognitive processes, thus reducing self-presentational bias. This study presents a cross-cultural comparison of attitudes toward robots at a US and Japanese faculty using explicit and implicit measures. The results of this study indicate Japanese faculty had many more robot-related experiences than the US faculty. Although US participants reported a slightly stronger preference for peo- ple than the Japanese participants did, and Japanese participants reported slightly warmer feelings toward robots, implicit measures showed virtually no di erence be- tween the groups. Both groups had signi cantly more pleasant associations with humans than with robots. Both the Japanese and US faculty reported people as be- ing more dangerous than robots but implicitly associated robots more strongly with weapons than people. This gap was bigger for the US faculty. 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This study presents a cross-cultural comparison of attitudes toward robots at a US and Japanese faculty using explicit and implicit measures. The results of this study indicate Japanese faculty had many more robot-related experiences than the US faculty. Although US participants reported a slightly stronger preference for peo- ple than the Japanese participants did, and Japanese participants reported slightly warmer feelings toward robots, implicit measures showed virtually no di erence be- tween the groups. Both groups had signi cantly more pleasant associations with humans than with robots. Both the Japanese and US faculty reported people as be- ing more dangerous than robots but implicitly associated robots more strongly with weapons than people. This gap was bigger for the US faculty. It may indicate a con ict between rational fears of people and unconscious fears of robots. 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