Emotionally Charged, Logically Blurred: AI-driven Emotional Framing Impairs Human Fallacy Detection (2026.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing computational approaches focus on logical structures of fallacies and argumentation schemes, ignoring the emotional dimension of argumentation. |
| Approach: | They propose to use large language models to systematically change emotional appeals in fallacious arguments by using a computational approach. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces fallacy detection by 14.5% on average on human arguments with enjoyment over fear or sadness. |
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