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Digital shadows in mental health map how LLMs simulate depression, anxiety, and stress through language and psychometrics

2026-06-08

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<p>Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for mental-health support, yet few datasets characterise how prompting conditions shape LLMs' psychological and linguistic outputs. To fill this gap, we introduce Mental Health Digital Shadows (MHDS), a benchmark of 75,000 outputs from 15 LLMs in conversation, under human-shadow or LLM-assistant conditions. MHDS includes outputs generated by several model famil...

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48cf64ae-16b6-5149-9f44-c3fa841e3c90
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10.31234/osf.io/7zhvr_v2
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