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Welcome to Revise and Resubmit 🎙️—where big ideas get a second draft, and management science meets the rhythm of real work.
Today’s spotlight is “Beyond Anthropomorphism: Social Presence in Human–AI Collaboration Processes” 📚 by Dominik Siemon, Edona Elshan, Triparna de Vreede, Philipp Ebel, and Gert‑Jan de Vreede.
Published online on 25 September 2025 in the Journal of Management Studies, a prestigious FT50 journal that sets the bar for rigorous, field-shaping research.
Brought to the world by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., custodians of scholarship with global reach.
The premise is timely and bold: as AI shifts from tool to teammate 🤖, collaboration hinges less on a humanlike mask and more on a felt sense of social presence.
Through three empirical studies 🧠—including text-based teamwork and psychophysiological cues like GSR and facial expressions—the authors map how presence fuels willingness to depend, strengthens team-oriented commitment, and elevates motivation to contribute.
The signal cuts through the noise: familiarity and understandability boost social presence and performance more reliably than surface-level anthropomorphic polish.
In other words, clarity over costume, explainability over eyeliner, context over cartoon—design for trust, not just charm.
For managers, that translates to playbooks with transparency, team rituals, and feedback loops that weave AI into the social fabric of work, turning presence into performance.
This episode comes to a prestigious stage too: Journal of Management Studies has long stood on the FT50 roster, a signal to scholars and leaders that this conversation matters.
Subscribe now to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, catch deep dives on the Weekend Researcher YouTube channel, and listen on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast—new episodes, zero fluff, all insight 🔔.
Huge thanks to Dominik Siemon, Edona Elshan, Triparna de Vreede, Philipp Ebel, and Gert‑Jan de Vreede, and to the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., for elevating the dialogue 📣.
Curious question to open the floor 👀💬: if social presence—not anthropomorphism—moves intention, what one change would most quickly turn an AI teammate from helpful tool into trusted collaborator in the next team sprint?

Reference

Siemon, D., Elshan, E., de Vreede, T., Ebel, P. and de Vreede, G.-J. (2025), Beyond Anthropomorphism: Social Presence in Human–AI Collaboration Processes. J. Manage. Stud.. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70000

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