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Cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant

2025-07-07

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<p>Lehr et al. (2025; hereafter LSHB) claim that GPT-4o exhibits “an analog form of humanlike cognitive selfhood,” based on its behavior in a classical cognitive dissonance paradigm (p. 1). In this brief commentary, we argue that this interpretation is a fundamental mischaracterization of large language models (LLMs), and that the observed results do not entail "cognitive" nor "dissonant" effects. We highlight tha...

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10.31234/osf.io/3ny67_v1
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