Persuasion Index: A Theory-Guided Framework for Persuasion Analysis

arXiv:2606.14580 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-06-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-06-12

Updated: 2026-08-27

Comments: EMNLP 2026 Main Conference

Code: https://github.com/krystalgong/Persuasion_Index_Code

Project page: https://krystalgong.github.io/pi

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Persuasion Index — 14× in this paper
• Grounding — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AUC — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 5× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing — 4× in this paper
• Generalization — 4× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Annotator Agreement — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cognitive Load — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Redundancy — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Interactions — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Emotional Resonance — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Structured Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Two One-Sided Tests — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Towards Strategic Persuasion with Language Models
• RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
• NRC VAD Lexicon v2: Norms for Valence, Arousal, and Dominance for over 55k English Terms

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