When Teens Bond With Machines: A Developmental Perspective on the New Frontier of Generative Artificial Intelligence Policy and Adolescents' Relationships.

Taren L McGray, Thao Ha, Diana Bowman, Katina Michael

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Article in American journal of public health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Taren L McGrayDuring the writing of this editorial, Taren L. McGray and Thao Ha were with the Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe. Diana Bowman is with the RMIT School of Law, Melbourne, Australia. Katina Michael is with the University of Sydney Business School, Darlington, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2485-9381

Thao HaDuring the writing of this editorial, Taren L. McGray and Thao Ha were with the Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe. Diana Bowman is with the RMIT School of Law, Melbourne, Australia. Katina Michael is with the University of Sydney Business School, Darlington, Australia.

Diana BowmanDuring the writing of this editorial, Taren L. McGray and Thao Ha were with the Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe. Diana Bowman is with the RMIT School of Law, Melbourne, Australia. Katina Michael is with the University of Sydney Business School, Darlington, Australia.

Katina MichaelDuring the writing of this editorial, Taren L. McGray and Thao Ha were with the Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe. Diana Bowman is with the RMIT School of Law, Melbourne, Australia. Katina Michael is with the University of Sydney Business School, Darlington, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3118-5557

Funding

Bidirectional effects between adolescent digital dating abuse dynamics and mental healthRF1MH138928 · NIMH · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI HA, PHUONG THAO · 2025 to 2025

$2.8M

NIMH NIH HHS RF1 MH138928

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID42753207

DOI10.2105/AJPH.2026.308718

PMCPMC13588469

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