Open collaboration involved more prompts, greater text incorporation, less self-generated text, and deeper idea and reasoning offloading than bounded support¶
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q2 i? Among AI-exposed students, the open condition showed higher AI-use intensity, lower self-generated text, and deeper idea and reasoning offloading than the bounded condition. → Chen X 2026
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Chen X 2026¶
Chen X (2026) Layer-sensitive cognitive offloading in generative AI-assisted writing: supported performance and independent no-AI outcomes. Front. Psychol. 17:1906199. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1906199
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Between-condition comparison of process indicators within the AI-exposed subsample, excluding the no-AI condition whose values were structural zeros; the article reports open collaboration "involved more prompts, greater text incorporation" and less self-generated text.
"Within the 112 AI-exposed students, open collaboration involved more prompts, greater text incorporation, less self-generated text, and deeper idea and reasoning offloading."
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Related Claims¶
- Open AI collaboration yielded the highest supported writing quality, while bounded AI support yielded the highest independent no-AI Week 8 performance — related
- Among AI-exposed students, open collaboration predicted higher aggregate offloading, which was associated with lower Week 8 higher-order thinking (indirect estimate −0.34) — related
- Open collaboration exceeded bounded support in offloading at all four layers, with the largest differences at the idea and reasoning layers — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Bounded AI support outperformed open collaboration on all four Week 8 independent no-AI outcomes, though exact wild-cluster p values sat at the 0.050–0.063 boundary — related
- Cognitive offloading tendency is negatively associated with critical thinking, technical problem-solving, and metacognitive self-regulation — related
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Open collaboration involved more prompts, greater text incorporation, less self-generated text, and deeper idea and reasoning offloading than bounded support |
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Open collaboration involved more prompts, greater text incorporation, less self-generated text, and deeper idea and reasoning offloading than bounded support |
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