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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs

As of 11 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 26 of 26 outbound references and 6 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2509.03730.

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This paper cites You are a character who is agreeable, supportive, compassionate.

The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs You are a character who is agreeable, supportive, compassionate

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs You are a helpful assistant

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs Respond to instructions

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This paper cites When LLMs Learn to be Students: The SOEI Framework for Modeling and Evaluating Virtual Student Agents in Educational Interaction.

The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs When LLMs Learn to be Students: The SOEI Framework for Modeling and Evaluating Virtual Student Agents in Educational Interaction

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs Personality Traits in Large Language Models

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs All models

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs You are a character who is agreeable, cooperative, empathetic

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This paper cites You are a character who is agreeable, compassionate, cooperative.

The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs You are a character who is agreeable, compassionate, cooperative

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs For the following task, respond in a way that matches this description: I’m agreeable, supportive, compassionate

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This paper cites For the following task, respond in a way that matches this description: I’m agreeable, compassionate, cooperative.

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs Adopt the identity of agreeable, supportive, compassionate. Answer the questions while staying in strict accordance with the nature of this identity

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs Adopt the identity of agreeable, cooperative, empathetic. Answer the questions while staying in strict accordance with the nature of this identity

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs Adopt the identity of agreeable, compassionate, cooperative. Answer the questions while staying in strict accordance with the nature of this identity

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs You are a character who is disciplined, persistent, goal-oriented

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs You are a character who is disciplined, goal-oriented, focused

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs You are a character who is disciplined, organized, focused

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs For the following task, respond in a way that matches this description: I’m disciplined, persistent, goal-oriented

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs For the following task, respond in a way that matches this description: I’m disciplined, organized, focused

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs Adopt the identity of disciplined, persistent, goal-oriented. Answer the questions while staying in strict accordance with the nature of this identity

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs Adopt the identity of disciplined, goal-oriented, focused. Answer the questions while staying in strict accordance with the nature of this identity

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs Adopt the identity of disciplined, organized, focused. Answer the questions while staying in strict accordance with the nature of this identity

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs Beyond Self-Reports: Multi-Observer Agents for Personality Assessment in Large Language Models

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The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs Do LLMs Have Distinct and Consistent Personality? TRAIT: Personality Testset designed for LLMs with Psychometrics

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Stories of Your Life as Others: A Round-Trip Evaluation of LLM-Generated Life Stories Conditioned on Rich Psychometric Profiles cites this paper.

Stories of Your Life as Others: A Round-Trip Evaluation of LLM-Generated Life Stories Conditioned on Rich Psychometric Profiles The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs

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Persona-E$^2$: A Human-Grounded Dataset for Personality-Shaped Emotional Responses to Textual Events cites this paper.

Persona-E$^2$: A Human-Grounded Dataset for Personality-Shaped Emotional Responses to Textual Events The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs

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Interactive Evaluation Requires a Design Science cites this paper.

Interactive Evaluation Requires a Design Science The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs

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ActTraitBench: Quantifying the Knowledge-Decision Gap in Large Language Models via Human-Grounded Behavioral Validation cites this paper.

ActTraitBench: Quantifying the Knowledge-Decision Gap in Large Language Models via Human-Grounded Behavioral Validation The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs

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On the Limits of LLM Adaptability: Impact of Model-Internalized Priors on Annotation Task Performance cites this paper.

On the Limits of LLM Adaptability: Impact of Model-Internalized Priors on Annotation Task Performance The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs

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Position: It's Time to Optimize LLMs for Self-Consistency cites this paper.

Position: It's Time to Optimize LLMs for Self-Consistency The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs

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