Power differences shape human communication through well documented socio cognitive effects, including language coordination, pronoun usage, authority bias, and harmful compliance. We examine whether large language models (LLMs) exhibit similar behaviors when assigned high or low status personas. Using personas from diverse professions, we simulate multi turn, power asymmetric dialogues (e.g., principal teacher, justice lawyer) and measure (i) language coordination, (ii) pronoun usage, (iii) persuasion success, and (iv) compliance with unsafe requests. Our results show that LLMs show key socio-cognitive effects of power, albeit with nuances and variability, linking simulated interactions to both desirable and unsafe behaviors.
Topics as Proxies for Sociodemographics: How Conversational Context Affects LLM Answers
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam（逻辑、语言与计算研究所，阿姆斯特丹大学）；Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University（计算机科学学院，东北大学）；Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen（语言与认知中心，格罗宁根大学）
Cognitive Policy-Driven LLM for Diagnosis and Intervention of Cognitive Distortions in Emotional Support Conversation
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China（哈尔滨工业大学（深圳））；City University of Macau, Macao SAR, China（澳门城市大学）；Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China（鹏城实验室）
Dynamic Demonstration Retrieval and Cognitive Understanding for Emotional Support Conversation
Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；Alibaba group（阿里巴巴集团）；Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fire Science and Intelligent Emergency Technology（广东省火灾科学与智能应急技术重点实验室）；Pazhou Lab（琶洲实验室）
Analyzing Cognitive Differences Among Large Language Models through the Lens of Social Worldview
Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University（北京大学计算机技术研究院）；Information Management Department, Peking University（北京大学信息管理系）；Renmin University of China（中国人民大学）
Triadic Fusion of Cognitive, Functional, and Causal Dimensions for Explainable LLMs: The TAXAL Framework
Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence（计算机科学与人工智能系）；Andalusian Institute of Data Science and Computational Intelligence（安达卢西亚数据科学与计算智能研究所）；University of Granada（格拉纳达大学）
The Art of Socratic Inquiry: A Framework for Proactive Template-Guided Therapeutic Conversation Generation
School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University（信息科学与工程学院，兰州大学）；School of Medical Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology（医学技术学院，北京理工大学）
Enhancing Diagnostic Accuracy through Multi-Agent Conversations: Using Large Language Models to Mitigate Cognitive Bias
Singapore General Hospital（新加坡中央医院）；Duke-NUS Medical School（杜克-新加坡国立大学医学院）；Singapore Eye Research Institute（新加坡眼科研究所）；Singapore National Eye Center（新加坡国家眼科中心）；Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University（斯坦福大学拜尔斯眼科研究所）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）
PRCCF: A Persona-guided Retrieval and Causal-aware Cognitive Filtering Framework for Emotional Support Conversation
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China（东北大学计算机科学与工程学院，沈阳，辽宁，中国）；Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle, Santa Clara, CA, United States（甲骨文云基础设施，甲骨文公司，圣克拉拉，加利福尼亚州，美国）
University of North Carolina at Charlotte（北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校）
Humans quite frequently interact with conversational agents. The rapid advancement in generative language modeling through neural networks has helped advance the creation of intelligent conversational agents. Researchers typically evaluate the output of their models through crowdsourced judgments, but there are no established best practices for conducting such studies. Moreover, it is unclear if cognitive biases in decision-making are affecting crowdsourced workers' judgments when they undertake these tasks. To investigate, we conducted a between-subjects study with 77 crowdsourced workers to …
Neurodegeneration characterizes individuals with different dementia subtypes (e.g., individuals with Alzheimer's Disease, Primary Progressive Aphasia, and Parkinson's Disease), leading to progressive decline in cognitive, linguistic, and social functioning. Speech and language impairments are early symptoms in individuals with focal forms of neurodegenerative conditions, coupled with deficits in cognitive, social, and behavioral domains. This paper reviews the findings on language and communication deficits and identifies the effects of dementia on the production and perception of discourse. I…
Heriot-Watt University（赫瑞-瓦特大学）；University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学）
In order to make spoken dialogue systems (such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant) more accessible and naturally interactive for people with cognitive impairments, appropriate data must be obtainable. Recordings of multi-modal spontaneous conversations with vulnerable user groups are scarce however and this valuable data is challenging to collect. Researchers that call for this data are commonly inexperienced in ethical and legal issues around working with vulnerable participants. Additionally, standard recording equipment is insecure and should not be used to capture sensitive data. We spent…
National Computer System Engineering Research Institute of China（中国国家计算机系统工程研究所）；Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院信息工程研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) has gained increasing attention for developing empathetic machines. Recently, many approaches have been devoted to perceiving conversational context by deep learning models. However, these approaches are insufficient in understanding the context due to lacking the ability to extract and integrate emotional clues. In this work, we propose novel Contextual Reasoning Networks (DialogueCRN) to fully understand the conversational context from a cognitive perspective. Inspired by the Cognitive Theory of Emotion, we design multi-turn reasoning modules to ext…
Center for Computational Engineering and Networking（计算工程与网络中心）；Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore（科钦阿姆利塔工程学院）；Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amrita University, India（印度阿姆利塔大学阿姆利塔大学）
In this era of digitization, knowing the user's sociolect aspects have become essential features to build the user specific recommendation systems. These sociolect aspects could be found by mining the user's language sharing in the form of text in social media and reviews. This paper describes about the experiment that was performed in PAN Author Profiling 2017 shared task. The objective of the task is to find the sociolect aspects of the users from their tweets. The sociolect aspects considered in this experiment are user's gender and native language information. Here user's tweets written in…
Building embodied autonomous agents capable of participating in social interactions with humans is one of the main challenges in AI. Within the Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) field, this objective motivated multiple works on embodied language use. However, current approaches focus on language as a communication tool in very simplified and non-diverse social situations: the "naturalness" of language is reduced to the concept of high vocabulary size and variability. In this paper, we argue that aiming towards human-level AI requires a broader set of key social skills: 1) language use in compl…
The University of British Columbia（不列颠哥伦比亚大学）；Carleton University（卡尔顿大学）；Arizona State University（亚利桑那州立大学）
Conversational data is essential in psychology because it can help researchers understand individuals cognitive processes, emotions, and behaviors. Utterance labelling is a common strategy for analyzing this type of data. The development of NLP algorithms allows researchers to automate this task. However, psychological conversational data present some challenges to NLP researchers, including multilabel classification, a large number of classes, and limited available data. This study explored how automated labels generated by NLP methods are comparable to human labels in the context of conversa…
Laboratoire LITIS - EA 4108（LITIS实验室 - EA 4108）；Laboratoire LiDiFra（LiDiFra实验室）
This article presents the Cogni-CISMeF project, which aims at improving medical information search in the CISMeF system (Catalog and Index of French-language health resources) by including a conversational agent to interact with the user in natural language. To study the cognitive processes involved during the information search, a bottom-up methodology was adopted. Experimentation has been set up to obtain human dialogs between a user (playing the role of patient) dealing with medical information search and a CISMeF expert refining the request. The analysis of these dialogs underlined the use…
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Beijing Normal University（北京师范大学）
The growing demand for mental health support has highlighted the importance of conversational agents as human supporters worldwide and in China. These agents could increase availability and reduce the relative costs of mental health support. The provided support can be divided into two main types: cognitive and emotional support. Existing work on this topic mainly focuses on constructing agents that adopt Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principles. Such agents operate based on pre-defined templates and exercises to provide cognitive support. However, research on emotional support using such…
Stevens Institute of Technology（史蒂文斯理工学院）；University of Arizona（亚利桑那大学）
Most musical programming languages are developed purely for coding virtual instruments or algorithmic compositions. Although there has been some work in the domain of musical query languages for music information retrieval, there has been little attempt to unify the principles of musical programming and query languages with cognitive and natural language processing models that would facilitate the activity of composition by conversation. We present a prototype framework, called MusECI, that merges these domains, permitting score-level algorithmic composition in a text editor while also support…
