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Assembling Engagement With Autonomy and Language ‐ A Neuroscientific Case Study With Digital Companions

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study addresses the need to understand human engagement with empathic Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) digital companions (DC), as these systems increasingly fulfil social and emotional roles in daily life. Motivated by the rapid adoption of DC technologies and their potential to reshape human–AI relationships, the study applies
Aitor Ezker‐Galech, Raquel Chocarro, Mónica Cortiñas, Álvaro Saavedra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feeling Vulnerable With My AI Companion: Examining Well‐Being in Human‐AI Relationships

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Individuals resort to human‐AI relationships to fulfill psychological, social, and empathetic needs. Nevertheless, dilemmas arise from these interdependent relationships which, although destined to enhance users' well‐being, can also be detrimental to them.
Liliane Abboud, Valentina Pitardi, Hannah Marriott   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Algorithm Discounting in Artificial Intelligence Recommendations: Matching Anthropomorphic Agents to Consumer Goals

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) in marketing, consumers often exhibit algorithm discounting—a tendency to evaluate AI‐generated recommendations less favorably than those from humans. Focusing on consumption goals, this study investigates how anthropomorphic AI agents (virtual assistants vs.
Jiayue Huang, Ruolei Gu, Yi Feng, Yuan Zhou, Wenbo Luo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Ecological Systems Analysis of University Students' ChatGPT Use in Higher Education

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Educational technology research has largely conceptualised students' ChatGPT adoption through individual‐level cognitive or integrity frameworks, leaving multilevel systemic conditions undertheorised. This study applies Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory (EST) to examine how students at a research‐intensive university in Istanbul ...
Thseen Nazir
wiley   +1 more source

Sound effects have only minor contribution to perceptions of anthropomorphism and animacy of simple animated shapes

i-Perception
While studies of anthropomorphism have spanned many decades, there is little evidence of the role that sound effects may play. We present two studies into sound's influence on perceptions of anthropomorphism and animacy using simple geometric animated ...
KC Collins, Maya Murad, Adel Manji
doaj   +1 more source

The role of brand anthropomorphism in building brand attachment: The experiment research on beverage brands

Ho Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Economics and Business Administration
The concept of anthropomorphism has been described as a psychological process in which people perceive inanimate agents as humanlike. In the branding context, this approach has been considered as an effective positioning strategy to enhance consumer ...
Nhi Pham Phuong Nguyen, Trang Thanh Bui, An Quang Ha   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropomorphic Products and Consumer Switching Under Social Exclusion: An Experimental Study [PDF]

Journal of Applied Structural Equation Modeling
This research addresses whether anthropomorphic products help reduce customer switching behavior caused by social exclusion. It examines the psychological mechanisms underlying feelings of control and belonging in consumer perception.
Meimei Jiang, Ryo Sakiyama, Xiaoru Ji, Wirawan Dony Dahana   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
wiley   +1 more source