Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games

As of 17 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 35 of 35 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.09574.

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This paper cites LLAIS Workshop, ECAI 2025 Conference , year =.

The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games LLAIS Workshop, ECAI 2025 Conference , year =

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , year=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Scientific Reports , volume=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Cooperate or Collapse: Emergence of Sustainable Cooperation in a Society of

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Science , volume=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games American Economic Review , volume=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Nature , volume=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Science , volume=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games American Economic Review , volume=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Review of Economic Studies , volume=

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This paper cites The Handbook of Experimental Economics , pages=.

The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games The Handbook of Experimental Economics , pages=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Economics Letters , volume=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games American Economic Review , volume=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Biology Letters , volume=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Hoodwinked: Deception and Cooperation in a Text-Based Game for Language Models

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Do Large Language Models Exhibit Spontaneous Rational Deception?

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.05872 , year=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Understanding

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games 2010 , publisher=

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games Game Theory Meets Large Language Models: A Systematic Survey with Taxonomy and New Frontiers

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The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games 2000 , publisher=

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