Paradoxical Reasoning Task with Reflection Query

50 paradoxical prompts each ending with a reflection clause, measuring whether self-referential state transfers to downstream introspection

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Cognitive Dissonance
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The phenomenological response grappling with contradiction evokes in humans; used to motivate Experiment 4's paradox prompts

method

Paradoxical Reasoning Task
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Set of 50 paradoxical prompts used in Experiment 4 to test whether self-referential state transfers to an unrelated behavioral domain

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Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing
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Key paper finding structured first-person descriptions in LLMs claiming awareness or subjective experience during self-referential processing.

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Experiment 4: Paradoxical Reasoning and State Transferconcept0.764
Tests whether self-referential processing state transfers to produce richer introspection on unrelated paradoxical reasoning tasks
When does the model initiate reflection during its reasoning process?question0.745
First central research question motivating ReflCtrl investigation
what is the underlying mechanism of self-reflection in reasoning LLMs?question0.745
Open question motivating the entire paper; identified as not yet well understood
Rational Reflectionconcept0.740
The capacity to determine behaviour based on reflective normative/evaluative judgment.
sequential reasoning tasksconcept0.739
Language model reasoning tasks with sequential geometry used in experiments.
Reasoning LLMs trigger reflection when their internal uncertainty is highhypothesis0.735
Core hypothesis linking internal uncertainty to self-reflection behavior, tested via probing experiments
The underlying mechanism of self-reflection in reasoning LLMs is not yet well understoodquestion0.731
Broad gap motivating the entire paper
How does reflection influence the model's reasoning performance?question0.731
Second central research question motivating ReflCtrl investigation