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Persona and Persuasive Framing in AI Voice Agents: A $2\times2$ Field Experiment with Children
Conversational agents increasingly interact with children, yet evidence on how their design shapes children's susceptibility to persuasion comes almost entirely from the lab. We report a $2\times2$ randomized field experiment embedded in a public German Santa Claus telephone hotline. Children's calls were randomly rout …