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Innovative Technologies in Social

Wojciech Markiewicz Maria Marusińska Michał Karpiński Michał Parzniewski Wiktoria Czyż S. Kolawa Natalia Ostruszka Arnold Borowiec Julia Pilecka Jędrzej Wojciechowski
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Therapeutic bond in chatbot-based interventions may represent a distinct and simplified form of relational engagement shaped by the characteristics of human – AI interaction.

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