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

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 26 of 26 outbound references and 7 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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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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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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Do AI Personas Grow? Analyzing and Benchmarking Personality Evolution in LLM Agents After Life Events cites this paper.

Do AI Personas Grow? Analyzing and Benchmarking Personality Evolution in LLM Agents After Life Events The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs

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