Yuval Haber

AI-Mediated Mental Health Support: The Role of Attachment Orientation and Psychological Distress

General-purpose generative AI (GenAI) models are increasingly serving as quasi-social agents, representing a novel form of informal AI-mediated help-seeking. This study examined associations between adult attachment orientations (Experiences in Close Relationships-Relationship St...

The paradox of pleasing: therapeutic recognition and the limits of conversational AI

Abstract Conversational artificial intelligence (CAI) is increasingly used by hundreds of millions of people for emotional support, personal advice, and therapeutic purposes, rapidly emerging as a mediator of human self-understanding (Stade et al. 2025). Yet despite growing evide...