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The Impact of AI Negative Feedback vs. Leader Negative Feedback on Employee Withdrawal Behavior: A Dual-Path Study of Emotion and Cognition
Originally published 2025-01-30 · Behavioral Sciences
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/bs15020152 ↗
AI / system type
AI-generated negative performance feedback compared with leader feedback
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: AI-generated negative performance feedback compared with leader feedback. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings shame and self-efficacy when negative feedback comes from AI or a leader into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers three experimental studies evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is shame and self-efficacy when negative feedback comes from AI or a leader. Source setting or population: 772 participants in experiments conducted in China and the United States. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
How should performance feedback protect dignity when an algorithm delivers it?
This three experimental studies examines shame and self-efficacy when negative feedback comes from AI or a leader. Its TRICK home is Respect, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
772 participants in experiments conducted in China and the United States
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- How should performance feedback protect dignity when an algorithm delivers it?
- What do this study’s design and population — 772 participants in experiments conducted in China and the United States — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering shame and self-efficacy when negative feedback comes from AI or a leader, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Experimental feedback settings may not represent ongoing employment relationships or long-term wellbeing.
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Xinyue Li; Mingpeng Huang; Jialin Liu; Yifan Fan; Min Cui (2025). The Impact of AI Negative Feedback vs. Leader Negative Feedback on Employee Withdrawal Behavior: A Dual-Path Study of Emotion and Cognition Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15020152
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