AUTHOR=Zhou Yuwei , Shi Yichuan , Lu Wei , Wan Fang TITLE=Did Artificial Intelligence Invade Humans? The Study on the Mechanism of Patients’ Willingness to Accept Artificial Intelligence Medical Care: From the Perspective of Intergroup Threat Theory JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=13 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.866124 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.866124 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the core driving forces for the future development of the medical industry, but patients are skeptical about the use of AI in medical care. Based on the intergroup threat theory (ITT), this study verified that patients would regard AI as an external group, triggering the perceived threat of the external group, which results in avoidance behaviors in the treatment (experiment 1: