Mental Health Impacts of AI Companions: Triangulating Social Media Quasi-Experiments, User Perspectives, and Relational Theory

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Main Authors:	Yuan, Yunhao, Zhang, Jiaxun, Aledavood, Talayeh, Zhang, Renwen, Saha, Koustuv
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Computers and Society Applications
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