Psychological influences of AI

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- SENSE-7: Taxonomy and Dataset for Measuring User Perceptions of Empathy in Sustained Human-AI Conversations
  
  Jina Suh, Lindy Le, Erfan Shayegani, Gonzalo Ramos, Judith Amores, Desmond C. Ong, Mary Czerwinski, Javier Hernandez
  
  IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, | February 2026, pp. 1-18
  
  Preprint Project
- Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools
  
  Pia Kreijkes, Viktor Kewenig, Martina Kuvalja, Mina Lee, Jake Hofman, Sylvia Vitello, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Daniel G. Goldstein, David Rothschild, Lev Tankelevitch, Tim Oates
  
  Computers & Education | November 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project Project Project
- Learning outcomes with GenAI in the classroom: A review of empirical evidence
  
  Kathy Walker, Mihaela Vorvoreanu
  
  MSR-TR-2025-42 | October 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems
  
  Myra Cheng, Su Lin Blodgett, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu
  
  2025 Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | July 2025
  
  SAC Highlight
  
  Publication Video
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project
- From Lived Experience to Insight: Unpacking the Psychological Risks of Using AI Conversational Agents
  
  Mohit Chandra, Suchismita Naik, Denae Ford, Ebele Okoli, Munmun De Choudhury, Mahsa Ershadi, Gonzalo Ramos, Javier Hernandez, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Shahed Warreth, Jina Suh
  
  Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency | June 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication Project
- What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection
  
  Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda, Rishi Vanukuru, Xinyue Chen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  PDF Preprint DOI Project Project Project
- Effects of LLM-based Search on Decision Making: Speed, Accuracy, and Overreliance
  
  Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, David Rothschild, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake Hofman
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  Publication
- A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies
  
  Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu, Su Lin Blodgett
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  Publication Video
- Longitudinal Study on Social and Emotional Use of AI Conversational Agent
  
  Mohit Chandra, Javier Hernandez, Gonzalo Ramos, Mahsa Ershadi, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Judith Amores, Ebele Okoli, Ann Paradiso, Shahed Warreth, Jina Suh
  
  April 2025
  
  Publication Project
- “I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF”: Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI
  
  Myra Cheng, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede, Su Lin Blodgett, Alexandra Olteanu
  
  April 2025
  
  Publication Publication
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Overreliance risk identification and mitigation framework
  
  Samir Passi, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Ruth Kikin-Gil
  
  MSR-TR-2025-26 | March 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Fostering appropriate reliance on GenAI: Lessons learned from early research
  
  Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Samir Passi, Shipi Dhanorkar, Amy Heger, Kathleen Walker
  
  MSR-TR-2025-4 | March 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans
  
  Alexandra Olteanu, Solon Barocas, Su Lin Blodgett, Lisa Egede, Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng
  
  March 2025
  
  Preprint Video
- The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education
  
  Auste Simkute, Viktor Kewenig, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  arxiv | January 2025
  
  Preprint Project Project
- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Victor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | October 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI ’24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project
- Appropriate reliance on Generative AI: Research synthesis
  
  Samir Passi, Shipi Dhanorkar, Mihaela Vorvoreanu
  
  MSR-TR-2024-7 | March 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Math Education with Large Language Models: Peril or Promise?
  
  Harsh Kumar, David Rothschild, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake Hofman
  
  SSRN Electronic Journal | December 2023
  
  DOI Video
- Overreliance on AI: Literature Review
  
  Samir Passi, Mihaela Vorvoreanu
  
  MSR-TR-2022-12 | June 2022
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project

- SENSE-7: Taxonomy and Dataset for Measuring User Perceptions of Empathy in Sustained Human-AI Conversations
  
  Jina Suh, Lindy Le, Erfan Shayegani, Gonzalo Ramos, Judith Amores, Desmond C. Ong, Mary Czerwinski, Javier Hernandez
  
  IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, | February 2026, pp. 1-18
  
  Preprint Project
- Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools
  
  Pia Kreijkes, Viktor Kewenig, Martina Kuvalja, Mina Lee, Jake Hofman, Sylvia Vitello, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Daniel G. Goldstein, David Rothschild, Lev Tankelevitch, Tim Oates
  
  Computers & Education | November 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project Project Project
- Learning outcomes with GenAI in the classroom: A review of empirical evidence
  
  Kathy Walker, Mihaela Vorvoreanu
  
  MSR-TR-2025-42 | October 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project
- What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection
  
  Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda, Rishi Vanukuru, Xinyue Chen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  PDF Preprint DOI Project Project Project
- Effects of LLM-based Search on Decision Making: Speed, Accuracy, and Overreliance
  
  Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, David Rothschild, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake Hofman
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  Publication
- A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies
  
  Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu, Su Lin Blodgett
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  Publication Video
- Longitudinal Study on Social and Emotional Use of AI Conversational Agent
  
  Mohit Chandra, Javier Hernandez, Gonzalo Ramos, Mahsa Ershadi, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Judith Amores, Ebele Okoli, Ann Paradiso, Shahed Warreth, Jina Suh
  
  April 2025
  
  Publication Project
- “I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF”: Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI
  
  Myra Cheng, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede, Su Lin Blodgett, Alexandra Olteanu
  
  April 2025
  
  Publication Publication
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Fostering appropriate reliance on GenAI: Lessons learned from early research
  
  Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Samir Passi, Shipi Dhanorkar, Amy Heger, Kathleen Walker
  
  MSR-TR-2025-4 | March 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education
  
  Auste Simkute, Viktor Kewenig, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  arxiv | January 2025
  
  Preprint Project Project
- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Victor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | October 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI ’24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project
- Appropriate reliance on Generative AI: Research synthesis
  
  Samir Passi, Shipi Dhanorkar, Mihaela Vorvoreanu
  
  MSR-TR-2024-7 | March 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Overreliance on AI: Literature Review
  
  Samir Passi, Mihaela Vorvoreanu
  
  MSR-TR-2022-12 | June 2022
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems
  
  Myra Cheng, Su Lin Blodgett, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu
  
  2025 Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | July 2025
  
  SAC Highlight
  
  Publication Video
- “I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF”: Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI
  
  Myra Cheng, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede, Su Lin Blodgett, Alexandra Olteanu
  
  April 2025
  
  Publication Publication
- AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans
  
  Alexandra Olteanu, Solon Barocas, Su Lin Blodgett, Lisa Egede, Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng
  
  March 2025
  
  Preprint Video
- SENSE-7: Taxonomy and Dataset for Measuring User Perceptions of Empathy in Sustained Human-AI Conversations
  
  Jina Suh, Lindy Le, Erfan Shayegani, Gonzalo Ramos, Judith Amores, Desmond C. Ong, Mary Czerwinski, Javier Hernandez
  
  IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, | February 2026, pp. 1-18
  
  Preprint Project
- Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools
  
  Pia Kreijkes, Viktor Kewenig, Martina Kuvalja, Mina Lee, Jake Hofman, Sylvia Vitello, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Daniel G. Goldstein, David Rothschild, Lev Tankelevitch, Tim Oates
  
  Computers & Education | November 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project Project Project
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project
- From Lived Experience to Insight: Unpacking the Psychological Risks of Using AI Conversational Agents
  
  Mohit Chandra, Suchismita Naik, Denae Ford, Ebele Okoli, Munmun De Choudhury, Mahsa Ershadi, Gonzalo Ramos, Javier Hernandez, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Shahed Warreth, Jina Suh
  
  Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency | June 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication Project
- What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection
  
  Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda, Rishi Vanukuru, Xinyue Chen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  PDF Preprint DOI Project Project Project
- Effects of LLM-based Search on Decision Making: Speed, Accuracy, and Overreliance
  
  Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, David Rothschild, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake Hofman
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  Publication
- A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies
  
  Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu, Su Lin Blodgett
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  Publication Video
- Longitudinal Study on Social and Emotional Use of AI Conversational Agent
  
  Mohit Chandra, Javier Hernandez, Gonzalo Ramos, Mahsa Ershadi, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Judith Amores, Ebele Okoli, Ann Paradiso, Shahed Warreth, Jina Suh
  
  April 2025
  
  Publication Project
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Overreliance risk identification and mitigation framework
  
  Samir Passi, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Ruth Kikin-Gil
  
  MSR-TR-2025-26 | March 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education
  
  Auste Simkute, Viktor Kewenig, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  arxiv | January 2025
  
  Preprint Project Project
- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Victor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | October 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI ’24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project
- Math Education with Large Language Models: Peril or Promise?
  
  Harsh Kumar, David Rothschild, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake Hofman
  
  SSRN Electronic Journal | December 2023
  
  DOI Video
- Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools
  
  Pia Kreijkes, Viktor Kewenig, Martina Kuvalja, Mina Lee, Jake Hofman, Sylvia Vitello, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Daniel G. Goldstein, David Rothschild, Lev Tankelevitch, Tim Oates
  
  Computers & Education | November 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project Project Project
- Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems
  
  Myra Cheng, Su Lin Blodgett, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu
  
  2025 Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | July 2025
  
  SAC Highlight
  
  Publication Video
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project
- “I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF”: Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI
  
  Myra Cheng, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede, Su Lin Blodgett, Alexandra Olteanu
  
  April 2025
  
  Publication Publication
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans
  
  Alexandra Olteanu, Solon Barocas, Su Lin Blodgett, Lisa Egede, Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng
  
  March 2025
  
  Preprint Video
- The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education
  
  Auste Simkute, Viktor Kewenig, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  arxiv | January 2025
  
  Preprint Project Project
- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Victor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | October 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI ’24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project

- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- “I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF”: Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI
  
  Myra Cheng, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede, Su Lin Blodgett, Alexandra Olteanu
  
  April 2025
  
  Publication Publication
- Learning outcomes with GenAI in the classroom: A review of empirical evidence
  
  Kathy Walker, Mihaela Vorvoreanu
  
  MSR-TR-2025-42 | October 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Overreliance risk identification and mitigation framework
  
  Samir Passi, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Ruth Kikin-Gil
  
  MSR-TR-2025-26 | March 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Fostering appropriate reliance on GenAI: Lessons learned from early research
  
  Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Samir Passi, Shipi Dhanorkar, Amy Heger, Kathleen Walker
  
  MSR-TR-2025-4 | March 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Appropriate reliance on Generative AI: Research synthesis
  
  Samir Passi, Shipi Dhanorkar, Mihaela Vorvoreanu
  
  MSR-TR-2024-7 | March 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Overreliance on AI: Literature Review
  
  Samir Passi, Mihaela Vorvoreanu
  
  MSR-TR-2022-12 | June 2022
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Longitudinal Study on Social and Emotional Use of AI Conversational Agent
  
  Mohit Chandra, Javier Hernandez, Gonzalo Ramos, Mahsa Ershadi, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Judith Amores, Ebele Okoli, Ann Paradiso, Shahed Warreth, Jina Suh
  
  April 2025
  
  Publication Project
- AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans
  
  Alexandra Olteanu, Solon Barocas, Su Lin Blodgett, Lisa Egede, Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng
  
  March 2025
  
  Preprint Video
- SENSE-7: Taxonomy and Dataset for Measuring User Perceptions of Empathy in Sustained Human-AI Conversations
  
  Jina Suh, Lindy Le, Erfan Shayegani, Gonzalo Ramos, Judith Amores, Desmond C. Ong, Mary Czerwinski, Javier Hernandez
  
  IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, | February 2026, pp. 1-18
  
  Preprint Project
- Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools
  
  Pia Kreijkes, Viktor Kewenig, Martina Kuvalja, Mina Lee, Jake Hofman, Sylvia Vitello, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Daniel G. Goldstein, David Rothschild, Lev Tankelevitch, Tim Oates
  
  Computers & Education | November 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project Project Project
- From Lived Experience to Insight: Unpacking the Psychological Risks of Using AI Conversational Agents
  
  Mohit Chandra, Suchismita Naik, Denae Ford, Ebele Okoli, Munmun De Choudhury, Mahsa Ershadi, Gonzalo Ramos, Javier Hernandez, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Shahed Warreth, Jina Suh
  
  Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency | June 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication Project
- The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education
  
  Auste Simkute, Viktor Kewenig, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  arxiv | January 2025
  
  Preprint Project Project
- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Victor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | October 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Math Education with Large Language Models: Peril or Promise?
  
  Harsh Kumar, David Rothschild, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake Hofman
  
  SSRN Electronic Journal | December 2023
  
  DOI Video
- Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems
  
  Myra Cheng, Su Lin Blodgett, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu
  
  2025 Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | July 2025
  
  SAC Highlight
  
  Publication Video
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project
- What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection
  
  Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda, Rishi Vanukuru, Xinyue Chen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  PDF Preprint DOI Project Project Project
- Effects of LLM-based Search on Decision Making: Speed, Accuracy, and Overreliance
  
  Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, David Rothschild, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake Hofman
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  Publication
- A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies
  
  Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu, Su Lin Blodgett
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  Publication Video
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI ’24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project

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Psychological influences of AI

Publications

SENSE-7: Taxonomy and Dataset for Measuring User Perceptions of Empathy in Sustained Human-AI Conversations

Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools

Learning outcomes with GenAI in the classroom: A review of empirical evidence

TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought

Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems

Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks

From Lived Experience to Insight: Unpacking the Psychological Risks of Using AI Conversational Agents

What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection

Effects of LLM-based Search on Decision Making: Speed, Accuracy, and Overreliance

A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies

Longitudinal Study on Social and Emotional Use of AI Conversational Agent

“I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF”: Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers

Overreliance risk identification and mitigation framework

Fostering appropriate reliance on GenAI: Lessons learned from early research

AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans

The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education

Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction

The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI

Appropriate reliance on Generative AI: Research synthesis

Math Education with Large Language Models: Peril or Promise?

Overreliance on AI: Literature Review

SENSE-7: Taxonomy and Dataset for Measuring User Perceptions of Empathy in Sustained Human-AI Conversations

Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools

Learning outcomes with GenAI in the classroom: A review of empirical evidence

TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought

Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks

What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection

Effects of LLM-based Search on Decision Making: Speed, Accuracy, and Overreliance

A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies

Longitudinal Study on Social and Emotional Use of AI Conversational Agent

“I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF”: Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers

Fostering appropriate reliance on GenAI: Lessons learned from early research

The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education

Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction

The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI

Appropriate reliance on Generative AI: Research synthesis

Overreliance on AI: Literature Review

TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought

Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems

“I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF”: Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI

AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans

SENSE-7: Taxonomy and Dataset for Measuring User Perceptions of Empathy in Sustained Human-AI Conversations

Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools

TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought

Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks

From Lived Experience to Insight: Unpacking the Psychological Risks of Using AI Conversational Agents

What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection

Effects of LLM-based Search on Decision Making: Speed, Accuracy, and Overreliance

A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies

Longitudinal Study on Social and Emotional Use of AI Conversational Agent

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers

Overreliance risk identification and mitigation framework

The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education

Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction

The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI

Math Education with Large Language Models: Peril or Promise?

Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools

Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems

Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks

“I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF”: Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers

AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans

The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education

Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction

The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI

TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought

“I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF”: Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI

Learning outcomes with GenAI in the classroom: A review of empirical evidence

Overreliance risk identification and mitigation framework

Fostering appropriate reliance on GenAI: Lessons learned from early research

Appropriate reliance on Generative AI: Research synthesis

Overreliance on AI: Literature Review

Longitudinal Study on Social and Emotional Use of AI Conversational Agent

AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans

SENSE-7: Taxonomy and Dataset for Measuring User Perceptions of Empathy in Sustained Human-AI Conversations

Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools