Two Kinds of Wonder: Measuring and Scaffolding the Fork Between Absorptive Awe and Generative Wonder in Children's Trust in AI Informants

Companion project to the preprint Two Kinds of Wonder (Mecchella, 2026). This page hosts the measure-development plan, the pilot study design, and the author's standing commitment to pre-register the pilot in full before any data collection.

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Open Science Framework
Published
2026-07-16
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/ns4zr
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Social Robot Interaction and HRI
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Two Kinds of Wonder: Measuring and Scaffolding the Fork Between Absorptive Awe and Generative Wonder in Children's Trust in AI Informants

Maura Mecchella
Open Science Framework
Social Robot Interaction and HRI
preprint

Two Kinds of Wonder: Measuring and Scaffolding the Fork Between Absorptive Awe and Generative Wonder in Children's Trust in AI Informants

Maura Mecchella
preprint en

Abstract

Companion project to the preprint Two Kinds of Wonder (Mecchella, 2026). This page hosts the measure-development plan, the pilot study design, and the author's standing commitment to pre-register the pilot in full before any data collection.

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Social Robot Interaction and HRI
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