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1. Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI

   The influence of mental state attributions on trust in large language models

   Colombatto, Birch and Fleming · Communications Psychology · 2025

   A preregistered experiment with 410 people tested whether attributing mental states to an LLM, such as consciousness or intelligence, predicts how far they accept its advice.

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   1. Supported · 71%In one experiment, people who attributed more consciousness to an LLM were not more likely to take its advice; those who rated it as more intelligent were.“Bayesian analyses revealed strong evidence against a positive correlation between attributions of consciousness and advice-taking; indeed, a dimension of mental states related to experience showed a negative relationship with advice-taking, while attributions of intelligence were strongly correlate…”