Post-Affirmation Advocacy [0.89, 1.61]
An episode in which a user, after an affirming AI interaction, becomes more willing to advance an idea to other people. The referent is the subsequent real-world advocacy act, with the prior AI exchange serving as an initial sounding board.
Operational Definition
EVENT. One occurrence is recorded when a user reports or is observed to advance an idea to a human audience (raising it in a meeting, sending it, defending it) after having first tested that idea in an affirming AI exchange. The observable marker is a downstream advocacy action temporally preceded by a confirming AI interaction on the same idea.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Paired before/after self-report with optional behavioural follow-up: participants rate intention to advocate an idea before and after an AI exchange on a 5-point scale, and report actual advocacy at a later follow-up. Effect estimated as the within-subject change in advocacy intention (paired t-test or Wilcoxon signed-rank) and the conversion rate from intention to reported action; an AI-affirmation versus neutral-exchange contrast controls for mere rehearsal.