It would be nice if "targeted interventions to help girls reframe negative experiences" worked, but I wonder whether this rumination tendency is simply baked in the cake, and thus hard to fix.
"Robots may indeed be able to capably transmit religion’s content, but they lack critical credibility. People perceive robots as having less capacity for understanding and emotion – less “mind” – than humans.
And 'mind' is key to credibility. Robots cannot authentically believe or feel faith’s costs. Unlike human clergy, who sacrifice for their religion, robots and AI simply speak about matters of faith, without any commitment.
The research provides new evidence that artificial intelligence may face hard limits when entering roles that require credibility, commitment, and “mind”-like religious leadership."
"... the average degree of improvement in trainees was small (about the equivalent of one quarter of a single Likert-type score value), and the overall improvement in other communication skills did not differ from zero."
True, it is pure status-signalling. According to the article, the average price for a 2-digit Delaware plate is $212,000. A single-digit plate got %675,000 in 2008.