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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 32 of 32 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.13168.

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory , author=

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory , author=

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This paper cites Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , pages=.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , pages=

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This paper cites Perspectives on Psychological Science , volume=.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Perspectives on Psychological Science , volume=

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This paper cites The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations , year=.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations , year=

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory 2024 , eprint=

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This paper cites Royal Society Open Science , volume=.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Royal Society Open Science , volume=

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This paper cites Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025 , pages=.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025 , pages=

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This paper cites Proceedings of the 62nd annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics (volume 1: Long papers) , pages=.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Proceedings of the 62nd annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics (volume 1: Long papers) , pages=

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This paper cites Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) , pages=.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) , pages=

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This paper cites Chatbot Companionship: A Mixed-Methods Study of Companion Chatbot Usage Patterns and Their Relationship to Loneliness in Active Users.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Chatbot Companionship: A Mixed-Methods Study of Companion Chatbot Usage Patterns and Their Relationship to Loneliness in Active Users

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This paper cites Humanities and Social Sciences Communications , volume=.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Humanities and Social Sciences Communications , volume=

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) , pages=

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This paper cites Lessons From an App Update at Replika AI: Identity Discontinuity in Human-AI Relationships.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Lessons From an App Update at Replika AI: Identity Discontinuity in Human-AI Relationships

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing , pages=

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , volume=

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Computational Linguistics , volume=

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Personal Relationships , volume=

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Observation 218953c0-4b9a-4b84-bfa6-ab9c9af97dfa · outbound

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans , volume=

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This paper cites Qwen3 Technical Report.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Qwen3 Technical Report

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This paper cites DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.19348 , year=

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This paper cites Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory GPT-4o System Card

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory OpenAI GPT-5 System Card

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This paper cites Persona Dynamics: Unveiling the Impact of Personality Traits on Agents in Text-Based Games.

Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Persona Dynamics: Unveiling the Impact of Personality Traits on Agents in Text-Based Games

Reference 30

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory Educational and psychological measurement , volume=

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Which LLM Is Your Ideal Companion? Evaluating Emotional Companion Capabilities of LLMs Based on Adult Attachment Theory , author=

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