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ArticleFrontiers in artificial intelligence2026

Words matter: measuring and titrating the communicative character of AI.

William C Kouns

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Article in Frontiers in artificial intelligence, 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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William C KounsIndependent Researcher, Knoxville, TN, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As large language models become primary communication partners, the stylistic and communicative character of their output-specifically the degree to which it relies on intellectual, affective, or action-oriented language-shapes how users interpret, and act on what they read. Yet this property is rarely measured or controlled directly. We introduce the Intellect-Emotion-Action Profile (IEAP), a purpose-built lexical framework featuring an inductively constructed dictionary from AI-generated text. IEAP decomposes any response into the proportional usage of intellectual, affective, and action words. Using a single automated harvester, we elicited and scored responses from four contemporary architectures (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini) across five question domains under four instructional-mode directives that span a cold-to-fire register (

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AI governancecommunicative characterhuman-AI interactionlarge language modelslexical analysisprompt engineering

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PMID42756148
PMCPMC13582515

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