AI Companions Reduce Loneliness

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11. Is generative artificial intelligence becoming addictive? An exploration among undergraduate students
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12. Love, Actually? A Randomized Experiment on AI Companion Use and Real-life Romantic Relationships
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13. Can’t help falling in love… with a bot? A mixed-methods analysis of public discourses of AI intimacy and companionship on YouTube
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14. Generative grounded theory ( GGT ): Inductive theory building in the age of generative AI
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15. From Ally – Enemy Conflict to Emotional Communion: Exploring an Attitudinal Ambivalence Toward Emotional Artificial Intelligence
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16. The Last Scribe: Psychotherapists and the Shadow of AI
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17. Perceived Social Presence and Support Seeking in Generative AI Use: Evidence From a Taiwan-Based Online Sample
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18. Acceptance of AI companion agents: Belonging need, emotional performance expectancy, and an extended AIDUA framework
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19. Perceived financial constraints and consumer responses to anthropomorphic service robots
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20. Can AI Companionship Foster Sociability? Promises and Pitfalls of AI-Mediated Leisure Among Vulnerable Populations
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21. The social dynamics of AI companionship: How activated attachment states and organizational signals shape human–AI relationships
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22. Friends, lovers, and companions: A systematic scoping review of empirical evidence on human-AI relationships
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23. AI-mediated intimacy as a potential sexual-medicine exposure: clinical and research priorities
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24. When no one laughs back: reciprocal subjectivity and the limits of AI companionship
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25. When AI Becomes the First Listener: A Conversation with Joanne Cheung on How AI Soothes and Shapes Our Thoughts
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26. Seeing humans in technology: The antecedents, boundaries and consequences of AI anthropomorphism
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27. Synthetic Dialogue Partners in Swedish Religious Education: Mediated Contact Through the Chatbot IRIS
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28. Integrating Emotion, Social Intelligence, and Culture in Robotic Companions
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29. AI, Human, and Organizational Factors Associated with Work Loneliness
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30. ChatGPT as an ecosystem shock: Longitudinal quasi-experimental evidence from commercial mental health chatbots
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31. GenAI support to the rescue: Mitigating employees’ psychological stress following tourism service recovery
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32. How ProSocial AI Can Catalyze Quality of Life and Positive Social Change at Scale: Double Literacy and the ProSocial AI Index
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33. When Connection Feels Empty: Rethinking Consumer Loneliness Through Dual Presence in Digital Marketing
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34. Connecting or Isolating: The Paradoxical Role of Social Media in Loneliness
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35. A critical narrative synthesis of psychological correlates, measurement, and reported findings on conversational AI engagement and dependence-related constructs
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36. Brand relationships in conversation: a review of conversational agents using bibliometrics and language models
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37. How emotional response styles of generative AI companions shape adaptive emotion regulation and short-term AI reliance
    Chun Wang · 2026 · Frontiers in Psychology
38. Warmth and competence in affective companion virtual humans: differential effects on behavioral intention via hedonic benefits
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39. Assessing the applicability of existing design recommendations to AI companion design: A multi-method study
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40. “I am here for you”: Adolescents’ perceptions of relational conversational AI and the social-emotional correlates of preference
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41. A Dual-Judge Framework for Evaluating Reasoning-Based AI Social Workers: Emulating Professional Logic in Persuasive Systems
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42. Meaning in the age of AI: Experiencing less, needing more
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43. Emotional AI 's Psychological Threat to Consumers: A Framework and Research Agenda
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44. Perceived support from AI chatbots and loneliness among higher vocational college students: a short-term three-wave study of social interaction anxiety and perceived social support
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45. FluxPersona Framework: Balancing Persona Consistency and Contextual Adaptation for Dynamic Personality Regulation in Role-Playing Companion Agents
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46. Socially (dis)connected consumer trust in AI technologies: a systematic review and research agenda
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47. Where is the love? The anthropomorphism paradox in human-AI intimacy
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48. Gendering conversational AI in human–AI interaction: The role of interaction context and sexist ideology in shaping user evaluations
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49. Personalizing AI voice agents: How voice agents with similar voices shape trust, self-congruency, and behavior
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50. What Companion AI Can’t Give Us: The Opportunity to Contribute
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51. Consumer vulnerability in artificial intelligence-driven marketing: A paradox theory lens
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52. Emotional support mechanisms driving satisfaction and continuance intention toward conversational AI companionship among Chinese generation Z: a mixed-methods study
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53. Mon copain IA était charmant. C’est bien ça le problème
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54. How deep do AI relationships really go? An expert in attachment theory explains
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55. Loneliness to consumption intention: emotional bonding and escapism in AI emotional companion app use
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56. Interview with the AI: a quantitative analysis of AI companions’ relationship formation features
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57. Exploring University Students’ Experiences of Using Conversational Artificial Intelligence for Emotional and Relational Support in Experiences of Loneliness
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58. Psychodynamik in Zeiten von KI – Überlegungen zur Bedeutung von digitaler Sozialisation im therapeutisch-pädagogischen Setting mit Jugendlichen / Psychodynamics in the Age of AI – Reflections on the Significance of Digital Socialisation in Therapeutic and Educational Settings with Young People
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59. AI Companions and Loneliness: Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Synthetic Mindfulness and Exploring Its Role in Alleviating Loneliness
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60. Artificial companions shape embodied desire and human attraction
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61. Lujuria: la fascinación desbordada por lo artificial
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62. Information shock: how AI demands an evolution of information science
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63. Emotional Comfort at a Cost: The Dynamic Role of Social Chatbot Use in Daily Loneliness, Well-Being, and Interpersonal Interaction
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64. Loss Orientation and Grief Following AI-Companion Shutdown
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65. Youth and emotional vulnerability predict chatbot appeal
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66. From digital interaction to social connection: AI virtual humans as interactive learning partners for older adults
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67. Do Personal AI Conversations Reduce Loneliness?Evidence from a Pre-Registered Experiment
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68. Who Uses Conversational AI and Why? Distinct User Profiles and Their Links to Personality, Attachment, and Well-Being
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69. Artificial Emotional Intelligence
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70. Emotimate: A Multimodal Emotion-Aware Conversational AI System Toward Elderly Emotional Support
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71. Prospective predictors of generative AI initiation, engagement, and problematic use among Japanese adults: a two-wave study
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72. Companion-oriented AI chatbot use and loneliness among Chinese emerging adults: the mediating role of self-attributed offline social displacement and the moderating role of relational-interdependent self-construal
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73. Serving the Player or Shaping Them? Game-Embedded AI Companions and the Rewiring of Well-being
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74. AI Companionship and Loneliness in Autistic and Neurotypical Users: Trust, Substitution, and the Social Role of Chatbots
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75. Safe and Accessible AI for Youth with Disabilities and Neurodivergence
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76. Caring Without Feeling: Affective Dynamics as the Control Layer of Human-AI Agent Collaboration
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