@inproceedings{zhao-etal-2026-reasoning,
    title = "Reasoning or Rambling? Exploring the Effect of Thinking on Agent Persuasion",
    author = "Zhao, Haodong  and
      Li, Jidong  and
      Wu, Zhaomin  and
      Ju, Tianjie  and
      Zhang, Zhuosheng  and
      He, Bingsheng  and
      Liu, Gongshen",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.189/",
    pages = "4002--4025",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}