Children who chose to comfort the victim reported higher self-efficacy and victim-help expectations than those who chose to confront the bully (descriptive, imbalanced groups)¶
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q2 i? Comfort-the-victim choosers (n = 4) reported higher self-efficacy and victim-help expectations than confront-the-bully choosers; these are descriptive statistics only. → Elaheh Sanoubari 2026
Evidence¶
Elaheh Sanoubari 2026¶
Elaheh Sanoubari, Neil Fernandes, Keith Rebello, Alicia Pan, Andrew Houston, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. (2026). Play-Testing REMind: Evaluating an Educational Robot-Mediated Role-Play Game. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00300 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2604.00300
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Descriptive comparison of game-log strategy choices in the play-testing study; only 4 participants chose 'Comfort the Victim'. The article states these "descriptive evidence should be interpreted with caution due to the severe group size imbalance"; no test statistics are printed.
"On average, participants who chose to comfort the victim reported higher perceived self-efficacy for their chosen action (M = 64.5, SD = 25.2) compared to those who chose to confront the bully (M = 42.6, SD = 21.1)."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Motivation — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
Related Claims¶
- After REMind, children's expectations that confronting a bully would stop the bullying shifted toward a calibrated midpoint — related
- Playing REMind significantly increased children's perceived self-efficacy for defending peers — related
- During REMind, nearly all children reported feeling sad for the victim and attributed bystander inaction mainly to low confidence or fear of retaliation — related
- REMind did not significantly change children's expectations that defending would help the victim feel better — related
- Victim group children score higher than bullies on the SDQ prosocial behavior subscale
- REMind did not significantly increase measured empathy, but baseline human-directed empathy correlated positively with robot-directed empathy — related
- By the end of the study all learner focus groups understood bullying as repeated aggression and reported being confident defenders — related
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Children who chose to comfort the victim reported higher self-efficacy and victim-help expectations than those who chose to confront the bully (descriptive, imbalanced groups) |
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Children who chose to comfort the victim reported higher self-efficacy and victim-help expectations than those who chose to confront the bully (descriptive, imbalanced groups) |
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