3 papers
cs.CL2026
Predicting consumer-technology ownership without a diffusion history
Irina Vartanova, Niels Selling, Jennifer Viberg Johansson +1
We test whether the perceived attributes of a consumer technology predict how widely it is owned. In a 2022 Prolific survey of US adults (n = 678), respondents rated 65 consumer te…
cs.CY2025
What Makes AI Applications Acceptable or Unacceptable? A Predictive Moral Framework
Kimmo Eriksson, Simon Karlsson, Irina Vartanova +1
As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms society, developers and policymakers struggle to anticipate which applications will face public moral resistance. We propose that thes…
cs.AI2025
AI Models Exceed Individual Human Accuracy in Predicting Everyday Social Norms
Pontus Strimling, Simon Karlsson, Irina Vartanova +1
A fundamental question in cognitive science concerns how social norms are acquired and represented. While humans typically learn norms through embodied social experience, we invest…