Tech companies are offering AI companions as a convenient cure for the loneliness epidemic, but there have been other forms of faux relationships, and they tend to have more to do with ego than heart.
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Top contributors
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Professor in Personality Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Professor, Business and Management, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor Applied Social and Policy Research; Director, Centre for Loneliness Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Deakin University
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Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Research Fellow, Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
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Associate lecturer, Deakin University
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Professor of Public Health, American University
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Researcher in the Centre for Loneliness Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato
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Senior Lecturer, Te Huataki Waiora School of Health, University of Waikato
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Research Fellow, University of Waikato
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Research Fellow, University of Waikato
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Director, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute; Professor of English, University of Connecticut
