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Better Living Through Creepy Technology? Exploring Tensions Between a Novel Class of Well-Being Apps and Affective Discomfort in App Culture
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Well-being apps promise to improve people's lives. Yet evidence shows that the data-hungry app culture that contextualizes well-being apps normalizes the user experience of affective discomfort. This apparent contradiction raises a diff...
Publication · June 22, 2026
A Linguistic Comparison between Human and ChatGPT-Generated Conversations
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This study explores linguistic differences between human and LLM-generated dialogues, using 19.5K dialogues generated by ChatGPT-3.5 as a companion to the EmpathicDialogues dataset. The research employs Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count...
Publication · June 22, 2026
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs
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A goal of many science communicators is to foster trust in scientists and their work. This study investigates if existing textual resources that scientists create in the course of their regular activities can be improved to enhance perc...
Publication · June 22, 2026
Who is responsible? US Public perceptions of AI governance through the lenses of trust and ethics
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The governance of artificial intelligence (AI) is an urgent challenge that requires actions from three interdependent stakeholders: individual citizens, technology corporations, and governments. We conducted an online survey (N = 525) o...
Publication · June 22, 2026
Believe it or not: A network analysis investigating how individuals embrace false and true statements during COVID-19
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ABSTRACT As individuals make belief decisions on truths and falsehoods, a systematic organization of (mis)information emerges. In this study, we employ a network approach to illustrate how a sample of Americans share a cognitive network...
Publication · June 22, 2026
Bridging or broadening Gaps? AI-Assisted professional writing among native and non-native English Writers
Publication · June 22, 2026
Fairness and Trust in AI Decision-Making: The Role of Human Involvement and Outcome Favorability
Publication · June 22, 2026
Can AI Be a Moral Victim? The Role of Moral Patiency and Ownership Perceptions in Ethical Judgments of Using AI-Generated Content
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The growing use of generative AI raises ethical concerns about authorship attribution and plagiarism. This study examines how people judge the reuse of AI-generated content, focusing on moral patiency and ownership perceptions. In an ex...
Publication · June 22, 2026
Why People Turn to ChatGPT for Health Information: Extending UTAUT with Healthcare Dissatisfaction and Perceived Credibility.
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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, have become a convenient source of information. This study proposes and tests a model predicting intentions to use ChatGPT for health information and examines whether signi...
Publication · June 22, 2026
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