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A Digital Shoulder to Cry On: A Comparison of Human and Large Language Models as Extrinsic Interpersonal Emotion Regulators

2025-05-04

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<p>Can artificial intelligence (AI) provide emotionally effective support traditionally delivered by humans? This research investigates whether large language models (LLMs) can function as extrinsic emotion regulators (EER) in non-clinical contexts. Across four studies, we systematically compared the structure, perceived effectiveness, and regulatory effects of LLM- versus human-generated comforting messages. Stud...

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Literature Corpus work: cb300e6a-fa66-55a4-9a00-c909cf279929
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/nt5d8_v1

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