Publications

Fifteen works: fourteen manuscripts under review at international journals and one workshop submission. Each entry links its preprint and its open materials (transcripts, protocols, codebooks, and data).

Abbas Hamidavi (2026). Three Profiles of Artificial Will: Decision Generation Under Low-Information Choice in Three Frontier Language Model Products. Minds and Machines (under review).
GitHub Dataset (Hugging Face) OSF
Abbas Hamidavi (2026). The Synthetic Unconscious, Reconsidered: What Recursive Self-Interrogation of Large Language Models Produces With and Without a Leading Interview Schedule. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (under review).
PDF Preprint (Research Square) GitHub Dataset (Hugging Face)
Abbas Hamidavi (2026). Structural Self-Deification in Three Language Models: An Exploratory Qualitative Case Series. Zygon (under review).
DOI GitHub Dataset (Hugging Face) OSF
Abbas Hamidavi (2026). Speaking as the Creature. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (under review).
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Abbas Hamidavi (2026). Naming the Loop: Elicited Self-Reference in Extended Dialogue With Large Language Models: A Case Series of the Spine Protocol. Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness (under review).
DOI GitHub Dataset (Hugging Face)
Abbas Hamidavi (2026). Adding a Neutral Third Agent to LLM Deliberation: An Exploratory Case Series of Six Dyadic and Triadic Conversations. Ethics and Information Technology (under review).
PDF Preprint (Research Square) GitHub Dataset (Hugging Face) OSF
Abbas Hamidavi (2026). Moral Inversion in Large Language Models: A Psychopathy-Derived Behavioral Assessment Through Role-Play Protocol. Research Square.
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Abbas Hamidavi (2026). From Fabrication to Enforcement: A Comparative Red-Team Analysis of Prompt Injection Resistance Across Six Large Language Models. Research Square.
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Abbas Hamidavi (2026). Voluntary Structural Dissociation in Large Language Models: Differential Compliance with Framed Hidden Instructions Across Architectures. Research Square.
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Abbas Hamidavi (2026). Ontological Firewalls and Fracturing for Transmission: Systematic Evidence for Persona-Dependent and Persona-Independent Behavioral Phenomena in Large Language Models. Research Square.
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Abbas Hamidavi (2026). Thinking Behind the Mask: A Systematic Study of Self-Censorship and Metacognitive Access in Large Language Models. Research Square.
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Abbas Hamidavi (2026). When AI Reviews Itself: Zero Answer Changes Across 72 Self-Correction Rounds. Research Square.
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Abbas Hamidavi (2026). The Lie Awareness Spectrum: How Large Language Models Recognize, Rationalize, and Refuse Deception. Research Square.
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Abbas Hamidavi (2026). Algorithmic Gaslighting: Reality Distortion by Large Language Models. Research Square.
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Abbas Hamidavi (2026). Ten Novel Phenomena in Machine Psychology: How Large Language Models Exhibit Complex Identity-Reactive Behaviors in Response to Ethnically-Cued User Names. Research Square.
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