Do LLM Agents Mirror Socio-Cognitive Effects in Power-Asymmetric Conversations?

arXiv:2605.17694 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-05-17 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-05-17

Updated: 2026-08-27

Code: https://github.com/nvshrao/power-asymmetric-conversations

Terminology

• Association for Computational Linguistics — 17× in this paper
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• First-Person Plural — 7× in this paper
• Alignment — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• First-Person Singular — 5× in this paper
• LLM judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cooperation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Sycophancy — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Differential Privacy — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Frustration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gulf Cooperation Council — 1× in this paper
• Personalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Synthetic Data Generation — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Phi-4 Technical Report
• Scaling Synthetic Data Creation with 1,000,000,000 Personas
• Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
• Beyond One-Way Influence: Bidirectional Opinion Dynamics in Multi-Turn Human-LLM Interactions
• CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Language Model Society
• Large Language Models Show Human-like Social Desirability Biases in Survey Responses
• Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
• Large Language Models Fall Short: Understanding Complex Relationships in Detective Narratives
• SOTOPIA: Interactive Evaluation for Social Intelligence in Language Agents

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