3 papers
cs.CL2026
Practicing with Language Models Cultivates Human Empathic Communication
Aakriti Kumar, Nalin Poungpeth, Diyi Yang +2
Empathy is central to human connection, yet people often struggle to express it effectively. In blinded evaluations, large language models (LLMs) generate responses that are often…
cs.HC2026
Spontaneous Persuasion: An Audit of Model Persuasiveness in Everyday Conversations
Nalin Poungpeth, Nicholas Clark, Tanu Mitra
Large language models (LLMs) possess strong persuasive capabilities that outperform humans in head-to-head comparisons. Users report consulting LLMs to inform major life decisions…
cs.CL2025
When Large Language Models are Reliable for Judging Empathic Communication
Aakriti Kumar, Nalin Poungpeth, Diyi Yang +3
Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating empathic responses in text-based conversations. But, how reliably do they judge the nuances of empathic communication? We investiga…