Cognitive Effects and Biases in Large Language Models

Markus Schedl; Ralph Hertwig; Antonela Tommasel; Shahed Masoudian

Cognitive Effects and Biases in Large Language Models

Markus Schedl, Ralph Hertwig, Antonela Tommasel, Shahed Masoudian

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This tutorial bridges psychology and NLP to clarify cognitive effects and biases in large language models, compares methodological assumptions across disciplines, and discusses practical evaluation challenges and open research directions.

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Volume:: Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorial Abstracts)
Month:: March
Year:: 2026
Address:: St. Julian's, Malta
Editors:: Chenghua Lin, Aline Paes, Rodrigo Wilkens
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Cite (ACL):: Markus Schedl, Ralph Hertwig, Antonela Tommasel, and Shahed Masoudian. 2026. Cognitive Effects and Biases in Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorial Abstracts), pages 4–6, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[Cognitive Effects and Biases in Large Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-tutorials.2/) (Schedl et al., EACL 2026)

Cognitive Effects and Biases in Large Language Models (Schedl et al., EACL 2026)

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Markus Schedl, Ralph Hertwig, Antonela Tommasel, and Shahed Masoudian. 2026. Cognitive Effects and Biases in Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorial Abstracts), pages 4–6, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.