Model family and prompt format moderate the level of simulated ADHD persona expression¶
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q2 i? Model family substantially moderates persona expression, and prompt format shifts elicited intensity, with text-based prompts eliciting stronger expression than scale-based prompts for moderate-intensity workday personas. → Jana Gonnermann-Müller 2026
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Jana Gonnermann-Müller 2026¶
Jana Gonnermann-Müller, Jennifer Haase, Nicolas Leins, Thomas Kosch, Sebastian Pokutta. (2026). LLM-Based Educational Simulation: Evaluating Temporal Student Persona Stability Across ADHD-Related Persona Specifications. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06307 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.06307
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Experiment I model-level (Table 13) and prompt-level (Table 14) descriptive analyses in the workday scenario. The article also reports that "the text-based prompt produced substantially higher self-report means and observer means than the scale-based prompt" for moderate-intensity personas. Descriptive comparisons; no standardized effect size is printed.
"DeepSeek models produced higher observer ratings for moderate-intensity workday personas, whereas Claude produced notably lower ratings for the same condition. These model-level differences confirm that the model family substantially moderates the level of persona expression."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Default personas show a self-report–behavior gap: they endorse moderate-range ADHD characteristics on self-report while displaying only weakly elevated ADHD-like behavior to observers — related
- Between-conversation persona stability is intensity-dependent: high-intensity ADHD personas cluster tightly while moderate-intensity personas show the highest aggregate variability — related
- Observer-rated behavioral expression of high- and moderate-intensity ADHD personas declines progressively across turns in unscripted LLM conversations — related
- LLM-simulated students' self-reported ADHD persona scores remain stable throughout extended multi-turn conversations — related
- Scripted conversations with recurring task-relevant prompts nearly eliminate observer-rated persona drift, up to a 97% reduction for high-intensity education personas — related
- LLM observer ratings converge excellently with human expert judgments in applying the CAARS observer instrument to generated narratives — related
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Model family and prompt format moderate the level of simulated ADHD persona expression |
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Model family and prompt format moderate the level of simulated ADHD persona expression |
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