Conversational Afterimage
The aftereffect of an intensive AI session in which a user later carries over formulations, thinking structures, or argumentation patterns from the dialogue into their everyday communication, often without awareness of the source.
Operational Definition
EVENT. One occurrence is coded when a distinctive formulation, frame, or argument structure introduced during an AI session reappears in the same user's later, non-AI communication (speech or writing) within a defined follow-up window. The matched carry-over instance in post-session communication is the countable marker.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Matched-feature transfer coding: build a per-session lexicon/structure list of distinctive AI-introduced features, then have raters scan later user-authored samples for matches; count carry-over instances per follow-up window; inter-rater agreement would be assessed via Cohen's kappa on match judgments.