AI RESEARCH
Lexical Indicators of Mind Perception in Human-AI Companionship
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.04105v1 Announce Type: cross 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 purposeful and norm governed expressions of MP.