6 papers
When AI Says "I have been in similar situations": Synthetic Lived Experience in Peer-Like Caregiver Support
Drishti Goel, Agam Goyal, Veda Duddu +6
Caregivers often turn to online communities for informational and emotional support. In these spaces, peer supporters frequently draw on personal narratives to respond to emotional…
Inform, Coach, Relate, Listen: Auditing LLM Caregiving Support Roles
Drishti Goel, Agam Goyal, Veda Duddu +8
Language models are increasingly being deployed for conversational support in informal caregiving contexts, where interactions often extend beyond information-seeking: caregivers s…
Algorithmic Cultivation: How Social Media Feeds Shape User Language
Olivia Pal, Agam Goyal, Eshwar Chandrasekharan +1
Algorithmic feeds have become primary environments for encountering information online, yet while they shape what people see, less is known about how sustained feed exposure shapes…
Social Simulacra in the Wild: AI Agent Communities on Moltbook
Agam Goyal, Olivia Pal, Hari Sundaram +2
As autonomous LLM-based agents increasingly populate social platforms, understanding the dynamics of AI-agent communities becomes essential for both communication research and plat…
Do We Know What They Know We Know? Calibrating Student Trust in AI and Human Responses Through Mutual Theory of Mind
Olivia Pal, Veda Duddu, Agam Goyal +2
Trust and reliance are often treated as coupled constructs in human-AI interaction research, with the assumption that calibrating trust will lead to appropriate reliance. We challe…
The Hidden Toll of Social Media News: Causal Effects on Psychosocial Wellbeing
Olivia Pal, Agam Goyal, Eshwar Chandrasekharan +1
News consumption on social media has become ubiquitous, yet how different forms of engagement shape psychosocial outcomes remains unclear. To address this gap, we leveraged a large…