Authorial suspension is marked by a fluency-ownership gap, deferral of commitment despite exhausted deliberation, and an overview unavailable on withdrawal¶
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q1 i? The article specifies three behavioral markers that identify authorial suspension and separate it from ordinary indecision. → Du P 2026
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Du P 2026¶
Du P, Zhou Y, Zhou Z, Wang H and Cao Q (2026). The synthetic position: generative artificial intelligence and the suspension of self-authorship in emerging adulthood. Front. Psychol. 17:1922087. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1922087
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A conceptual derivation of phenomenological markers from the model, made behavioral so that suspension is identified by what happens when the system is withdrawn, not by self-labels. The second marker is deferral of commitment despite exhausted deliberation; the third is the unavailability of the overview without the system.
"The first is a discrepancy between fluency and ownership: the person can produce an articulate survey of their own options, values, and prospective selves, often composed with the system, while reporting little sense of authorship over it."
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Related Claims¶
- Installing the synthetic position as promoter can raise self-narrative coherence while lowering authorship of it (authorship-coherence dissociation)
- Habitual self-formative dialogue with a synthetic position tends to absorb the integrative authorship of the meta- and promoter positions (synthetic promotion)
- Outcome turns on the structural location the synthetic position occupies, not the volume of use; population-level studies indexing use alone should record a washed-out average effect
- Monetary stakes for accuracy act independently of AI availability on judgment suspension, with no significant AI × stakes interaction — related
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Authorial suspension is marked by a fluency-ownership gap, deferral of commitment despite exhausted deliberation, and an overview unavailable on withdrawal |
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Authorial suspension is marked by a fluency-ownership gap, deferral of commitment despite exhausted deliberation, and an overview unavailable on withdrawal |
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