Time Flies When You Are Having Fun: Cognitive Absorption and Beliefs about ChatGPT Usage

This study is a methodological replication of the work of Agarwal and Karahanna (2000), who developed the multidimensional construct labeled cognitive absorption and defined it as a state of deep involvement with software. We adapted the wording of the original survey items to the context of ChatGPT, followed the same procedures to assess the original model, and compared our results with the following replications published in the 2010s. This replication study supported all proposed hypotheses in the original study, reinforcing the stability and applicability of the model over the years and in different scenarios.