Apparent psychological profiles of LLMs are largely measurement artifacts driven by directional response bias rather than actual traits.
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Big Five inventories fail to capture meaningful differences or recover the five-factor structure in LLMs, with only 3% variance between models and four facets collapsing (r >= .92).
LLMs produce human-like finite bids in the St. Petersburg game but shift toward rational behavior under controlled prompt changes, indicating surface-level outcome resemblance without mechanism-level alignment.
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Personality Without Persons? A Psychometric Critique of Big Five Testing in Large Language Models
Big Five inventories fail to capture meaningful differences or recover the five-factor structure in LLMs, with only 3% variance between models and four facets collapsing (r >= .92).