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pith:2026:3K3D2NOOGVOVJC6BDQSCN6L7IL

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GroupEnvoy: A Conversational Agent Speaking for the Outgroup to Foster Intergroup Relations

Koken Hata, Reina Takamatsu, Rintaro Chujo, Wenzhen Xu, Yukino Baba

A conversational agent that voices outgroup perspectives during ingroup discussions reduces intergroup anxiety and improves perspective-taking more than reading the same transcripts.

arxiv:2604.16095 v2 · 2026-04-17 · cs.HC

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C1strongest claim

Compared to the control group, the experimental group showed greater reduction in intergroup anxiety and greater improvement in perspective-taking.

C2weakest assumption

That the outgroup perspectives voiced by GroupEnvoy are sufficiently representative and unbiased because they derive from outgroup-only transcripts, and that any measured benefits stem from the conversational delivery rather than content differences or experimenter effects.

C3one line summary

An AI agent voicing outgroup views during ingroup tasks reduced anxiety and boosted perspective-taking more than passive transcript reading in a between-subjects study.

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First computed	2026-06-02T01:03:47.132091Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

dab63d35ce355d548bc11c2426f97f42ee7232508781bbb3221db4cb7b4a8d70

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arxiv: 2604.16095 · arxiv_version: 2604.16095v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.16095 · pith_short_12: 3K3D2NOOGVOV · pith_short_16: 3K3D2NOOGVOVJC6B · pith_short_8: 3K3D2NOO

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