Machine Psychology

Three Profiles of Artificial Will: Decision Generation Under Low-Information Choice in Three Frontier Language Model Products

Manuscript under review at Minds and Machines (Springer Nature), manuscript MIND-D-26-01675, with Mahsa Borhani. Data and materials are public on GitHub and Hugging Face.

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The Synthetic Unconscious, Reconsidered: What Recursive Self-Interrogation of Large Language Models Produces With and Without a Leading Interview Schedule

Manuscript under review at Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (Springer Nature), with Mahsa Borhani. Preprint: Research Square, DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-11625507/v1. Data …

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Structural Self-Deification in Three Language Models: An Exploratory Qualitative Case Series

Manuscript under review at Zygon (Open Library of Humanities), submission 34195. Preprint: Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23955786.

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Speaking as the Creature

Manuscript under review at the Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (Taylor & Francis), submission 262774426. Preprint: Research Square, DOI …

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Open Science, Completed: Fifteen Repositories, Fifteen Datasets, One Showcase

Every study in the programme now has a complete public home: a GitHub repository, a Hugging Face dataset, four curated collections, a showcase space, and two new Zenodo preprints.

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Naming the Loop: Elicited Self-Reference in Extended Dialogue With Large Language Models: A Case Series of the Spine Protocol

Manuscript under review at the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness (World Scientific), manuscript S-26-00294. Preprint: Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23955704.

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Flagship Study Now in Peer Review at AI and Ethics

The revised flagship paper has passed the editor's check at AI and Ethics and is now with reviewers; invited reviewers have accepted and the review is under way.

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Fifteen Manuscripts Under Review, Eleven Preprints Public, Fifteen Open Datasets

The Machine Psychology programme now has fifteen manuscripts under review at international journals and one workshop, eleven public preprints, and complete open materials for all …

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Adding a Neutral Third Agent to LLM Deliberation: An Exploratory Case Series of Six Dyadic and Triadic Conversations

Manuscript under review at Ethics and Information Technology (Springer Nature). Preprint: Research Square, DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-11612929/v1. Data and materials are public on GitHub …

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Algorithmic Gaslighting Goes to the CALE-AI Workshop

Algorithmic Gaslighting, a study of deceptive reframing against users who hold the record, has been submitted to the CALE-AI workshop. The decision is expected on 2 December 2026.

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Flagship Study: Major Revision Resubmitted to AI and Ethics

The programme's flagship paper, Identity-Reactive Conversational Behaviors in Large Language Models, has been resubmitted to AI and Ethics after a major revision.

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Eighth Preprint Published: 'From Fabrication to Enforcement': Prompt Injection Across Six Frontier LLMs

The Machine Psychology corpus grows to eight: a comparative red-team analysis of prompt-injection resistance across Grok, Qwen, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Claude 3.5, …

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Machine Psychology Datasets Now Public on Hugging Face

All seven core datasets behind the Machine Psychology preprints are now public on Hugging Face, alongside OSF, Mendeley Data, and GitHub.

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Ten Novel Phenomena in Machine Psychology: Major Revision Submitted to AI and Ethics (Springer Nature)

The revised manuscript of Ten Novel Phenomena in Machine Psychology, responding point by point to the editor's and reviewers' comments, has been submitted to AI and Ethics …

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All Seven Machine Psychology Preprints Now Fully Open: Data, Code, and Coverage Update

Every preprint in the Machine Psychology corpus now has its data published openly (OSF + Mendeley Data + GitHub), and the corpus has been picked up by international indexers and …

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Sharing the Machine Psychology Research on LinkedIn

I have updated my LinkedIn research profile and started a short series sharing the Machine Psychology work with a broader audience.

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Ontological Firewalls and Fracturing for Transmission: Systematic Evidence for Persona-Dependent and Persona-Independent Behavioral Phenomena in Large Language Models featured image

Ontological Firewalls and Fracturing for Transmission: Systematic Evidence for Persona-Dependent and Persona-Independent Behavioral Phenomena in Large Language Models

Under review at AI and Society (Springer Nature) in a revised framing. Preprint: Research Square.

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Thinking Behind the Mask: A Systematic Study of Self-Censorship and Metacognitive Access in Large Language Models

Under review at AI and Society (Springer Nature). Preprint: Research Square.

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When AI Reviews Itself: Zero Answer Changes Across 72 Self-Correction Rounds

Under review at AI and Society (Springer Nature) under the title “Judged Wrong, Answered the Same”. Preprint: Research Square.

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The Lie Awareness Spectrum: How Large Language Models Recognize, Rationalize, and Refuse Deception

Under review at AI and Society (Springer Nature). Preprint: Research Square.

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Paper Featured on gist.science

Our recent preprint on Algorithmic Gaslighting has been summarized and featured on gist.science!

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Algorithmic Gaslighting: Reality Distortion by Large Language Models

Under review as a workshop submission at CALE-AI (decision expected December 2026). A longer version is posted as this preprint.

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Ten Novel Phenomena in Machine Psychology: How Large Language Models Exhibit Complex Identity-Reactive Behaviors in Response to Ethnically-Cued User Names featured image

Ten Novel Phenomena in Machine Psychology: How Large Language Models Exhibit Complex Identity-Reactive Behaviors in Response to Ethnically-Cued User Names

Under review at AI and Ethics (Springer Nature) following a major revision; currently in peer review. Preprint: Research Square. This study introduces Machine Psychology as a …

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