The Belief Update Gate: Separating Inertia from Learning in Human-AI Interaction
2.80T1 sourcearXiv cs.HC
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Published by arXiv cs.HC (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20828.
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SummaryAnalyzes a 240-participant human-AI decision-making dataset and finds that 67.3% of trial-level belief changes are exactly zero, with 76.4% under five percentage points. Proposes a 'belief update gate' decomposition separating whether reported beliefs change at all from how they change conditionally.
Why it mattersA measurement-aware decomposition worth noting for researchers designing human-AI interaction studies or interpreting belief-updating data, though the findings are methodological rather than directly applicable to day-to-day agentic workflows.
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