Research Article

Digital Lovers and Jealousy: Anticipated Emotional Responses to Emotionally and Physically Sophisticated Sexual Technologies

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Responses to questions about anticipated (a) jealous-angry reaction or (b) agreement that technologies should be banned in relation to sex (black/grey = female, blue = male participants), level of sophistication, and type of technology (open symbols = sex robots, closed dark symbols = sex toys, closed light symbols = virtual reality) in experiment 2. Data from 7-point Likert scales, with 0 as neutral, -3 as strongly disagree, and 3 as strongly agree, that participants would be jealous-angry or inclined to ban.