Beyond Demographics: Enhancing Cultural Value Survey Simulation with Multi-Stage Personality-Driven Cognitive Reasoning

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Main Authors: Liu, Haijiang, Li, Qiyuan, Gao, Chao, Cao, Yong, Xu, Xiangyu, Wu, Xun, Hershcovich, Daniel, Gu, Jinguang
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author Liu, Haijiang
Li, Qiyuan
Gao, Chao
Cao, Yong
Xu, Xiangyu
Wu, Xun
Hershcovich, Daniel
Gu, Jinguang
author_facet Liu, Haijiang
Li, Qiyuan
Gao, Chao
Cao, Yong
Xu, Xiangyu
Wu, Xun
Hershcovich, Daniel
Gu, Jinguang
contents Introducing MARK, the Multi-stAge Reasoning frameworK for cultural value survey response simulation, designed to enhance the accuracy, steerability, and interpretability of large language models in this task. The system is inspired by the type dynamics theory in the MBTI psychological framework for personality research. It effectively predicts and utilizes human demographic information for simulation: life-situational stress analysis, group-level personality prediction, and self-weighted cognitive imitation. Experiments on the World Values Survey show that MARK outperforms existing baselines by 10% accuracy and reduces the divergence between model predictions and human preferences. This highlights the potential of our framework to improve zero-shot personalization and help social scientists interpret model predictions.
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spellingShingle Beyond Demographics: Enhancing Cultural Value Survey Simulation with Multi-Stage Personality-Driven Cognitive Reasoning
Liu, Haijiang
Li, Qiyuan
Gao, Chao
Cao, Yong
Xu, Xiangyu
Wu, Xun
Hershcovich, Daniel
Gu, Jinguang
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
Introducing MARK, the Multi-stAge Reasoning frameworK for cultural value survey response simulation, designed to enhance the accuracy, steerability, and interpretability of large language models in this task. The system is inspired by the type dynamics theory in the MBTI psychological framework for personality research. It effectively predicts and utilizes human demographic information for simulation: life-situational stress analysis, group-level personality prediction, and self-weighted cognitive imitation. Experiments on the World Values Survey show that MARK outperforms existing baselines by 10% accuracy and reduces the divergence between model predictions and human preferences. This highlights the potential of our framework to improve zero-shot personalization and help social scientists interpret model predictions.
title Beyond Demographics: Enhancing Cultural Value Survey Simulation with Multi-Stage Personality-Driven Cognitive Reasoning
topic Computation and Language
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17855