3 papers
cs.HC2026
Replicating Human Motivated Reasoning Studies with LLMs
Neeley Pate, Adiba Mahbub Proma, Hangfeng He +4
Motivated reasoning - the idea that individuals processing information may be motivated to either arrive at accurate beliefs or arrive at desired conclusions - has been well-explor…
cs.SI2026
Can LLMs Emulate Human Belief Dynamics?
Adiba Mahbub Proma, Neeley Pate, James N. Druckman +3
Can LLMs simulate how humans form and change beliefs in social networks? We put this to the test by replicating an established study on belief dynamics, evaluating 12 LLMs across m…
cs.CL2025
How LLMs Fail to Support Fact-Checking
Adiba Mahbub Proma, Neeley Pate, James Druckman +3
While Large Language Models (LLMs) can amplify online misinformation, they also show promise in tackling misinformation. In this paper, we empirically study the capabilities of thr…