Emotion was the rarest essay theme, raised ambivalently by a minority of students¶

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q2 i? Emotion was the rarest theme in the corpus, raised by only a minority of students and often ambivalently, capturing both confidence gains and risks of false confidence and isolation. → Lucile Favero 2026

Evidence¶

Lucile Favero 2026¶

Lucile Favero, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Tanja Käser, Nuria Oliver. (2026). From Substitution to Scaffolding: Breaking the Self-Reinforcing Harm Cycle of AI in Education (and Beyond). arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17451 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.17451

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Descriptive thematic finding from the 49-essay corpus: "Emotion was the rarest theme, raised by only a minority of students, and often ambivalently." One student noted AI could help students gain confidence and keep learning a hard subject, yet risks false confidence and isolation.

"Emotion was the rarest theme, raised by only a minority of students, and often ambivalently."

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