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Conditional Cognitive Biases in LLMs: How Biased User Turns Modulate In-Context Reasoning

arXiv:2608.05166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present an evaluation of cognitive bias expression in state-of-the-art instruction-tuned LLMs under realistic multi-turn interaction settings. Our work introduces a novel three-condition experimental framework that disentangles the effect of exposure to a biased user turn from the effect of the turn's semantic content, alongside a benchmark of 24,300 jury-validated user prompts spanning all 81 cells of a 9x9 target-human bias interaction matri

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Published: 7 August 2026
Source: arXiv cs.CY
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness
Retrieved: 7 August 2026

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ethics.ai (7 August 2026), “Conditional Cognitive Biases in LLMs: How Biased User Turns Modulate In-Context Reasoning,” evidence record 17018, https://ethics.ai/record/17018 (originally published by arXiv cs.CY).

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