First Psychological Study within SENTIMENT

We’re excited to announce that the psychological division of the SENTIMENT project has pre-registered its first empirical study. The pre-registration is now publicly available on the Open Science Framework (OSF) (https://osf.io/5cspr), outlining the study’s hypotheses, methodology, and planned analyses.

The study investigates how individuals disclose personal information in interactions with voice-based, socially intelligent AI systems, focusing on conversational depth, emotional engagement, and the effects of personalization of the system. As the first empirical component of the project, this work lays the psychological foundation for the interdisciplinary exploration of data sensitivity, system behavior, and design of privacy-by-design mechanisms in later phases of SENTIMENT.

By examining how people experience and respond to seemingly human-like AI dialogues, the study will offer critical insights that will inform subsequent legal, technical, and design-related decisions within the broader project.Data collection will begin shortly, and we look forward to sharing the first results soon.