We are vigilant for clues about whether our identity has been granted. Psychologist William Swann has studied how much we care about this affirmation of ourselves, including one study in which participants were even willing to pay for affirmation. How people treat us and what they say to us af...
This is not to say that the simple one-on-one chatbots in the market today aren’t helping mental health patients. A self-reported,peer-reviewed studypublished by Alison Darcy, a Stanford clinical psychologist and the designer of Woebot, and a team of others, indicated that the use of bot...