Lexical Indicators of Mind Perception in Human-AI Companionship
Mind perception (MP) is a psychological phenomenon in which humans automatically infer that another entity has a mind and/or mental capacities, usually understood in two dimensions (perceived agency and experience capacities). Despite MP's centrality to many social processes, understanding how MP may function in humans' machine companionship relations is limited. This is in part due to reliance on self reports and the gap between automatic MP processes and more purposeful and norm governed expressions of MP. We here leverage MP signaling language to explore the relationship between MP and AI companionship in humans' natural language. We systematically collected discussions about companion...
| Authors | Jaime Banks, Jianghui Li |
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| Primary category | cs.HC |
| Published | 5 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 5 April 2026 |
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