3 papers
cs.CL2026
The Machine's Internal Clock: Do LLMs Share Human Temporal Illusions?
Catherine Bao, Vivek Srikumar
Human perception of time is subjective. Temporal illusions show that the brain relies on context and relational cues when judging duration. Prior studies established these effects…
cs.CY2026
Empirically Grounded Behavioral Adaptivity for LLM-Based Virtual Patients in Psychotherapy Training
Angela Chen, Siwei Jin, Catherine Bao +5
Simulated patients offer a scalable way to train psychotherapy micro-skills such as empathic responding and exploratory probing, but current systems either follow fixed scripts or…
cs.CY2026
Simulating Couple Conflict: Designing A Multi-Agent System for Therapy Training and Practice
Canwen Wang, Angela Chen, Catherine Bao +5
Couples therapy requires managing complex, evolving emotional dynamics between partners, but traditional training methods for therapists, like role-play, lack realism, consistency,…