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The Dynamics of Delusion: Modeling Bidirectional False Belief Amplification in Human-Chatbot Dialogue

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Main Authors:	Mehta, Ashish, Moore, Jared, Anthis, Jacy Reese, Agnew, William, Lin, Eric, Yin, Peggy, Ong, Desmond C., Haber, Nick, Dweck, Carol
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Human-Computer Interaction
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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