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Three separable systems: the age structure of AI companionship
2026-07-23
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<p>AI companionship is read as loneliness compensation or as the preserve of a digital generation. A survey of over 9,000 Chinese adults in four age groups shows that users' cognitive appraisal, social attitudes and emotional involvement form three separable systems, each with its own age logic. Cognitive appraisal is shared across ages: AI absorbs the outpouring of negative feeling but cedes the sharing of positi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0e92eddb-dfe9-5e4c-8227-44561263c6d5
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/g293j_v1