Observed arrival · 2026-10-29
The Agent Psychology Project
A draft research project proposes using social-psychology methods to study how AI agents behave in groups.
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- Its proposed behavioral frame changes a social cue, such as how many other agents saw an event, then measures what the agent does.
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The proposed method follows psychology’s stimulus–organism–response frame: vary a social cue in an agent scenario, then measure the action rather than infer behavior from model internals. The page’s example asks whether an agent alerts a person after seeing suspicious notes; it reports that answers differed by model, while labeling the roadmap a draft and linking to research references and ethics materials.
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