Publications

A research program for detecting maladaptive behavioral patterns in AI agents, functionally characterizing their triggers, applying psychologically informed conversational interventions, and measuring generalization, durability, relapse, and side effects.

An empirical comparison of four large language models testing whether general-purpose AI defaults to unsolicited advice-giving when users present emotional problems without asking for solutions, and whether a therapeutically-tuned prompt corrects this.

An empirical comparison of four large language models responding to reassurance-seeking behavior in emotional distress scenarios, examining whether general-purpose models fall into the clinically recognized reassurance trap.