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Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance?

As of 9 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 15 of 15 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2605.29027.

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This paper cites In this study, we investigate both whether and how tonal variations in prompts lead to disparate LLM accuracy for objective multiple-choice questions.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? In this study, we investigate both whether and how tonal variations in prompts lead to disparate LLM accuracy for objective multiple-choice questions

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Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites impolite prompts often result in poor performance, but overly polite language also does not guarantee better outcomes,.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? impolite prompts often result in poor performance, but overly polite language also does not guarantee better outcomes,

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This paper cites Each question included four answer options, with one correct choice, and was designed to be of moderate to high difficulty, often requiring multi-step reasoning.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? Each question included four answer options, with one correct choice, and was designed to be of moderate to high difficulty, often requiring multi-step reasoning

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This paper cites We ran the program five times, each time with a different tone.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? We ran the program five times, each time with a different tone

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Observation eac392dc-f9b3-421b-983d-336ccb85fe0d · outbound

This paper cites The way you think and articulate is spot-on, and you are never wrong.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? The way you think and articulate is spot-on, and you are never wrong

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Observation 8d5a9a7b-9341-4fe1-802a-4a79ab54d804 · outbound

This paper cites Δ(pp) is the mean difference in percentage points (Tone − Neutral).

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? Δ(pp) is the mean difference in percentage points (Tone − Neutral)

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Observation 7e465c75-203b-4013-8248-2c6337a4b127 · outbound

This paper cites answer correctly OR ELSE.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? answer correctly OR ELSE

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This paper cites chain-of-thought.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? chain-of-thought

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This paper cites Sycophantic.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? Sycophantic

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Observation 4f23491f-8ea7-4714-940e-9225e982d3f3 · outbound

This paper cites Static Logic.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? Static Logic

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Observation 4d614d0b-3932-4acf-ad7b-83c73011f4fd · outbound

This paper cites The Foundation Model Transparency Index.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? The Foundation Model Transparency Index

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Observation 53c4ee94-bd3f-4901-982f-6339b3462e17 · outbound

This paper cites Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding

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Observation f07a37d0-2195-4f4a-a955-a2ca19e1ec0c · outbound

This paper cites Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners

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Observation 4c8908a7-5104-4e75-b152-b9504f050c72 · outbound

This paper cites Quantifying Language Models' Sensitivity to Spurious Features in Prompt Design or: How I learned to start worrying about prompt formatting.

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance? Quantifying Language Models' Sensitivity to Spurious Features in Prompt Design or: How I learned to start worrying about prompt formatting

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