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Simulated Souls: Investigating the Emotional Fallacy in Large Language Models

2025-08-07

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<p>The rise of generative artificial intelligence has ushered in a new era where machines produce text with such emotional coherence that they blur the boundary between simulation and sentience. This paper explores the emotional fallacy—a cognitive bias wherein users and even developers anthropomorphize Large Language Models (LLMs), attributing genuine emotions to systems governed solely by statistical inference a...

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10.31234/osf.io/z82hv_v1
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