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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to adopt a personality and behave in a human-like manner. There is a large body of research that investigates the behavioural impacts of personality in less obvious areas such as…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-12 Harris Borman , Anna Leontjeva , Luiz Pizzato , Max Kun Jiang , Dan Jermyn

Large Language Models (LLMs) are often misleadingly recognized as having a personality or a set of values. We argue that an LLM can be seen as a superposition of perspectives with different values and personality traits. LLMs exhibit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Grgur Kovač , Masataka Sawayama , Rémy Portelas , Cédric Colas , Peter Ford Dominey , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Persona prompting is increasingly used in large language models (LLMs) to simulate views of various sociodemographic groups. However, how a persona prompt is formulated can significantly affect outcomes, raising concerns about the fidelity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Marlene Lutz , Indira Sen , Georg Ahnert , Elisa Rogers , Markus Strohmaier

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit distinct and consistent personalities that greatly impact trust and engagement. While this means that personality frameworks would be highly valuable tools to characterize and control LLMs' behavior,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Michel Frising , Daniel Balcells

In many real-world applications, large language models (LLMs) operate as independent agents without interaction, thereby limiting coordination. In this setting, we examine how prompt framing influences decisions in a threshold voting task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zice Wang , Zhenyu Zhang

Psychology research has long explored aspects of human personality such as extroversion, agreeableness and emotional stability. Categorizations like the `Big Five' personality traits are commonly used to assess and diagnose personality…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Graham Caron , Shashank Srivastava

While Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents can be used to create highly engaging interactive applications through prompting personality traits and contextual data, effectively assessing their personalities has proven challenging. This…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Eswari Jayakumar , Niladri Sekhar Dash , Debasmita Mukherjee

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used as conversational agents, exploiting their capabilities in various sectors such as education, law, medicine, and more. However, LLMs are often subjected to context-shifting behaviour, resulting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Pranav Bhandari , Nicolas Fay , Michael Wise , Amitava Datta , Stephanie Meek , Usman Naseem , Mehwish Nasim

We examine whether large language models (LLMs) can predict biased decision-making in conversational settings, and whether their predictions capture not only human cognitive biases but also how those effects change under cognitive load. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Stephen Pilli , Vivek Nallur

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human behavior in social settings such as legal mediation, negotiation, and dispute resolution. However, it remains unclear whether these simulations reproduce the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Deuksin Kwon , Kaleen Shrestha , Bin Han , Spencer Lin , James Hale , Jonathan Gratch , Maja Matarić , Gale M. Lucas

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in everyday life and research. One of the most common use cases is conversational interactions, enabled by the language generation capabilities of LLMs. Just as between two humans, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jingyao Zheng , Xian Wang , Simo Hosio , Xiaoxian Xu , Lik-Hang Lee

Personality traits have long been studied as predictors of human behavior. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) suggest similar patterns may emerge in artificial systems, with advanced LLMs displaying consistent behavioral…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Pengrui Han , Rafal Kocielnik , Peiyang Song , Ramit Debnath , Dean Mobbs , Anima Anandkumar , R. Michael Alvarez

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate increasingly human-like abilities across a wide variety of tasks. In this paper, we investigate whether LLMs like ChatGPT can accurately infer the psychological dispositions of social media users and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Heinrich Peters , Sandra Matz

This study investigates the behaviors of Large Language Models (LLMs) when faced with conflicting prompts versus their internal memory. This will not only help to understand LLMs' decision mechanism but also benefit real-world applications,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Jiahao Ying , Yixin Cao , Kai Xiong , Yidong He , Long Cui , Yongbin Liu

The emergence of unveiling human-like behaviors in Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to a closer connection between NLP and human psychology. Scholars have been studying the inherent personalities exhibited by LLMs and attempting to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Lucio La Cava , Andrea Tagarelli

As Large Language Models (LLMs) gain autonomous capabilities, their coordination in multi-agent settings becomes increasingly important. However, they often struggle with cooperation, leading to suboptimal outcomes. Inspired by Axelrod's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Kenneth J. K. Ong , Lye Jia Jun , Hieu Minh "Jord" Nguyen , Seong Hah Cho , Natalia Pérez-Campanero Antolín

Hate speech detection is a socially sensitive and inherently subjective task, with judgments often varying based on personal traits. While prior work has examined how socio-demographic factors influence annotation, the impact of personality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Shuzhou Yuan , Ercong Nie , Mario Tawfelis , Helmut Schmid , Hinrich Schütze , Michael Färber

This paper aims to shed light on the evolutionary dynamics of diverse and social populations by introducing the rich expressiveness of generative models into the trait expression of social agent-based evolutionary models. Specifically, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-22 Reiji Suzuki , Takaya Arita

A Large Language Model (LLM) is an artificial intelligence system that has been trained on vast amounts of natural language data, enabling it to generate human-like responses to written or spoken language input. GPT-3.5 is an example of an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Gaurav Suri , Lily R. Slater , Ali Ziaee , Morgan Nguyen

Have Large Language Models (LLMs) developed a personality? The short answer is a resounding "We Don't Know!". In this paper, we show that we do not yet have the right tools to measure personality in language models. Personality is an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Xiaoyang Song , Akshat Gupta , Kiyan Mohebbizadeh , Shujie Hu , Anant Singh