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Technology & Ethics
People choose to receive human empathy despite rating AI empathy higher
- Authors
- Wenger, Joshua D., Cameron, C. Daryl, Inzlicht, Michael
- Venue
- Communications Psychology
- Published
- 2025
- ID
- doi:10.1038/s44271-025-00387-3
Peer-reviewed study in Communications Psychology (Nature Portfolio). When given the choice, participants sought empathy from humans, even though they rated AI-written responses as more empathetic and said those responses made them feel more heard.
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