Do LLM-Driven Agents Exhibit Engagement Mechanisms? Controlled Tests of Information Load, Descriptive Norms, and Popularity Cues

Tai-Quan Peng, Yuan Tian, Songsong Liang +2

Large language models make agent-based simulation more behaviorally expressive, but they also sharpen a basic methodological tension: fluent, human-like output is not, by itself, e…