Reasoning Theater: Probing for Performative Chain-of-Thought

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  "doi": "10.48550/arxiv.2603.05488",
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  "title": "Reasoning Theater: Probing for Performative Chain-of-Thought",
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  "authors": [
    "Siddharth Boppana",
    "Annabel Ma",
    "Max Loeffler",
    "Raphael Sarfati",
    "Eric Bigelow",
    "Atticus Geiger",
    "Owen Lewis",
    "Jack Merullo"
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