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Pandora is a psychotherapy client simulation framework that models evolving psychological and relational states to generate more authentic, individually aligned expressions and reduce AI-like responses.
Psychotherapy clients may experience distress before they can coherently describe it, and their expression changes with emotion, perceived safety, and trust. Large language model-based client simulators often rely on clinically organized case descriptions, which can encourage responses explaining the client's difficulties more clearly than their current understanding warrants. We propose Pandora, a psychotherapy client simulation framework that models how psychological experience becomes situated, individual expression. Pandora updates psychological and relational states in response to therapist interventions, constructs subjective appraisals and attributions, and plans response content…
large language modelclient simulatorpsychological staterelational statesubjective appraisalexpression plannerdisclosure-alignmentexpression similarity
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