Character style and relational judgments in human-AI romance: trust, commitment, intimacy, and passion.

Front Psychol · 2026 · PMC13171570 · PMID 42145561

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highly significantp < 0.001actually significant

A 4 (Character Style) × 2 (Participant Gender) mixed-design repeated measures ANOVA revealed a highly significant main effect of character style on perceived realism, F (3, 84) = 130.72, p < 0.001, η p 2 = 0.78.

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approached but did not reach significancep = 0.087so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The difference between Real Human and 2D Anime ( M = 3.56, SD = 1.97) approached but did not reach significance ( p = 0.087).

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