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Optimizing AI Social Chatbots for Relational Outcomes: The Effects of Profile Design, Communication Strategies, and Message Framing

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Journal of Business Communication

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Abstract

International Journal of Business Communication, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 648-673, April 2026.
With more corporations incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) tools like social chatbots into their public communication practices, we explore optimal chatbot designs for organization-public relational outcomes. Our 2 × 2 × 2 factorial web experiment ...