3 papers
cs.CL2026
Whose Assessment of Distress? Community Perspectives and LLM Alignment on Well-Being Posts
Andrew Aquilina, Xiang Lorraine Li, Yu-Ru Li
Judgments about psychological distress are socially situated: what counts as concerning hinges on community norms around emotional expression, vulnerability, and help-seeking. Yet…
cs.CL2026
Lost in Delusion: Examining LLM Safety Under User Delusions and Distress
Andrew Aquilina, Chetna Nihalani, Vasudha Varadarajan +3
LLM chatbots increasingly serve as a first source of support for people in psychological distress, including those whose distress is entangled with delusional beliefs. Prior work o…
cs.CL2026
Auditing Support Strategies in LLMs through Grounded Multi-Turn Social Simulation
Michelle Star, Andrew Aquilina, Yu-Ru Lin
When users seek social support from chatbots, they disclose their situation gradually, yet most evaluations of supportive LLMs rely on single-turn, fully specified prompts. We intr…