arxivcs.AI2026-06-28
Cognitive World Models for Process-Level Social Influence Evaluation
Minghui Ma, Bin Guo, Han Wang, Mengqi Chen, Jingqi Liu, Yan Liu, et al.
Social influence dialogue changes user behavior by altering internal cognitive states. The central evaluation question is whether the user's beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions measurably change over the course of conversation, a process-oriented criterion that neither sur…