Mansfield et al. (2026)

What might we learn about autobiographical narrative processing from Artificial Intelligence?

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13(1)

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Mansfield, C. D., Bauer, J. J., Booker, J., Grysman, A., Singer, J., & Fivush, R. (2026). What might we learn about autobiographical narrative processing from Artificial Intelligence?. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-06426-y

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Autobiographical Memory Representational Structures

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Training holds no record of the model's own experiences: ChatGPT (versions 3.5 and 4.0) asked for self-defining memories produced invented, redemptive stories, and readers identified human narratives correctly about 71% of the time and ChatGPT narratives about 60% of the time