Cognitive Effects and Biases in Large Language Models
Markus Schedl, Ralph Hertwig, Antonela Tommasel, Shahed Masoudian
Abstract
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.- Anthology ID:
- 2026.eacl-tutorials.2
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorials)
- Month:
- March
- Year:
- 2026
- Address:
- St. Julian's, Malta
- Editors:
- Chenghua Lin, Aline Paes, Rodrigo Wilkens
- Venue:
- EACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4–6
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.eacl-tutorials.2/
- DOI:
- 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: Tutorials), pages 4–6, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Cognitive Effects and Biases in Large Language Models (Schedl et al., EACL 2026)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.eacl-tutorials.2.pdf