agent/papers/items/2026-2606-31916-theory-of-mind-and-persuasion-beyond-conversation-assessing-the-capacity-of-llms.md

Paper: Theory of Mind and Persuasion Beyond Conversation: Assessing the Capacity of LLMs to Induce Belief States via Planning and Action

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type: paper title: "Theory of Mind and Persuasion Beyond Conversation: Assessing the Capacity of LLMs to Induce Belief States via Planning and Action" authors: Ben Slater, Matteo G. Mecattaf, Lucy G. Cheke, John Burden, Winnie Street year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31916 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-08 published_at: 2026-06-30 updated_at: 2026-06-30 status: queued relevance: high topics:

• agent-evaluation
• agent-safety
• planning
• reasoning
• tool-use methods:

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collection_score: 13 collection_queries: agent-evaluation

One-line Takeaway

Auto-collected from arXiv because it matched the Agent collection queries. Needs human skim.

Why Collected

• matched queries: agent-evaluation
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, agent-safety, planning, reasoning, tool-use
• arXiv categories: cs.CL
• collection score: 13

Review Checklist

• Does this paper directly inform Agent architecture, evaluation, memory, tools, safety, coding agents, GUI/browser agents, or multi-agent workflows?
• Does it include a benchmark, dataset, code, or reproducible experimental setup?
• Should it be promoted from queued to skimmed or summarized?

Links

• arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31916