Desmond C. Ong

68 papers A* 3B 22Journal 35Unranked 8

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	—	`conf`	"AI-Induced Delusional Spirals': Understanding Lived Experiences During Maladaptive Human-Chatbot Interactions. CHI Extended Abstracts Yuewen Yang, Sonja K. Schoenwald, Jared Moore, Desmond C. Ong, Sunny Xun Liu, Jeffrey T. Hancock
2026	J	`jnl`	Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat Logs. CoRR Jared Moore, Ashish Mehta, William Agnew, Jacy Reese Anthis, Ryan Louie, Yifan Mai, Peggy Yin, Myra Cheng, Samuel J. Paech, Kevin Klyman, Stevie Chancellor, Eric Lin, Nick Haber, Desmond C. Ong
2026	J	`jnl`	HEART: A Unified Benchmark for Assessing Humans and LLMs in Emotional Support Dialogue. CoRR Laya Iyer, Kriti Aggarwal, Sanmi Koyejo, Gail D. Heyman, Desmond C. Ong, Subhabrata Mukherjee
2026	J	`jnl`	Visual Affect Analysis: Predicting Emotions of Image Viewers with Vision-Language Models. CoRR Filip Nowicki, Hubert Marciniak, Jakub Laczkowski, Krzysztof Jassem, Tomasz Górecki, Vimala Balakrishnan, Desmond C. Ong, Maciej Behnke
2025	J	`jnl`	Editorial. IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput. Rachael E. Jack, Desmond C. Ong, Khiet Truong, Gale M. Lucas, Shiro Kumano
2025	—	`conf`	Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers. FAccT Jared Moore, Declan Grabb, William Agnew, Kevin Klyman, Stevie Chancellor, Desmond C. Ong, Nick Haber
2025	J	`jnl`	Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers. CoRR Jared Moore, Declan Grabb, William Agnew, Kevin Klyman, Stevie Chancellor, Desmond C. Ong, Nick Haber
2025	J	`jnl`	Harmful Traits of AI Companions. CoRR W. Bradley Knox, Katie Bradford, Samanta Varela Castro, Desmond C. Ong, Sean Williams, Jacob Romanow, Carly Nations, Peter Stone, Samuel Baker
2025	—	`conf`	Modeling Subjectivity in Cognitive Appraisal with Language Models. EMNLP (Findings) Yuxiang Zhou, Hainiu Xu, Desmond C. Ong, Maria Liakata, Petr Slovák, Yulan He
2025	J	`jnl`	Modeling Subjectivity in Cognitive Appraisal with Language Models. CoRR Yuxiang Zhou, Hainiu Xu, Desmond C. Ong, Petr Slovák, Yulan He
2025	J	`jnl`	SENSE-7: Taxonomy and Dataset for Measuring User Perceptions of Empathy in Sustained Human-AI Conversations. CoRR Jina Suh, Lindy Le, Erfan Shayegani, Gonzalo A. Ramos, Judith Amores, Desmond C. Ong, Mary Czerwinski, Javier Hernandez
2025	B	`conf`	Vicarious emotion predictions integrate information about relationship strength. CogSci Kexin Jiang, Alexis Smith-Flores, Katherine Nora Liang, Desmond C. Ong, Lindsey J. Powell
2024	B	`conf`	GPT-ology, Computational Models, Silicon Sampling: How should we think about LLMs in Cognitive Science? CogSci Desmond C. Ong
2024	J	`jnl`	GPT-ology, Computational Models, Silicon Sampling: How should we think about LLMs in Cognitive Science? CoRR Desmond C. Ong
2024	J	`jnl`	Human-like Affective Cognition in Foundation Models. CoRR Kanishk Gandhi, Zoe Lynch, Jan-Philipp Fränken, Kayla Patterson, Sharon Wambu, Tobias Gerstenberg, Desmond C. Ong, Noah D. Goodman
2024	B	`conf`	Large Language Models Produce Responses Perceived to be Empathic. ACII Yoon Kyung Lee, Jina Suh, Hongli Zhan, Junyi Jessy Li, Desmond C. Ong
2024	J	`jnl`	Large Language Models Produce Responses Perceived to be Empathic. CoRR Yoon Kyung Lee, Jina Suh, Hongli Zhan, Junyi Jessy Li, Desmond C. Ong
2024	J	`jnl`	Large Language Models are Capable of Offering Cognitive Reappraisal, if Guided. CoRR Hongli Zhan, Allen Zheng, Yoon Kyung Lee, Jina Suh, Junyi Jessy Li, Desmond C. Ong
2024	B	`conf`	The Language of an Empathy-Inducing Narrative. CogSci Emma Gueorguieva, Tatiana Lau, Eliana Hadjiandreou, Desmond C. Ong
2023	—	`conf`	Evaluating Subjective Cognitive Appraisals of Emotions from Large Language Models. EMNLP (Findings) Hongli Zhan, Desmond C. Ong, Junyi Jessy Li
2023	J	`jnl`	Evaluating Subjective Cognitive Appraisals of Emotions from Large Language Models. CoRR Hongli Zhan, Desmond C. Ong, Junyi Jessy Li
2023	B	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2023, Sydney, NSW, Australia, July 26-29, 2023 CogSci Micah B. Goldwater, Florencia K. Anggoro, Brett K. Hayes, Desmond C. Ong
2023	J	`jnl`	Using Positive Matching Contrastive Loss with Facial Action Units to mitigate bias in Facial Expression Recognition. CoRR Varsha Suresh, Desmond C. Ong
2022	B	`conf`	Modeling Causal Inference from Emotional Displays. CogSci Dennis W. H. Teo, Zheng Yong Ang, Desmond C. Ong
2022	B	`conf`	Reasoning about the antecedents of emotions: Bayesian causal inference over an intuitive theory of mind. CogSci Sean Dae Houlihan, Desmond C. Ong, Maddie Cusimano, Rebecca Saxe
2022	B	`conf`	Using Positive Matching Contrastive Loss with Facial Action Units to mitigate bias in Facial Expression Recognition. ACII Varsha Suresh, Desmond C. Ong
2021	B	`conf`	"If only Santa had one more present": Exploring the development of near-miss counterfactual reasoning. CogSci Desmond C. Ong, Mika Asaba, Hui Yan Lim, Patricia Chen, Hyowon Gweon
2021	J	`jnl`	A Systematic Evaluation of Domain Adaptation in Facial Expression Recognition. CoRR Yan San Kong, Varsha Suresh, Jonathan Soh, Desmond C. Ong
2021	B	`conf`	An Ethical Framework for Guiding the Development of Affectively-Aware Artificial Intelligence. ACII Desmond C. Ong
2021	J	`jnl`	An Ethical Framework for Guiding the Development of Affectively-Aware Artificial Intelligence. CoRR Desmond C. Ong
2021	J	`jnl`	Applying Probabilistic Programming to Affective Computing. IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput. Desmond C. Ong, Harold Soh, Jamil Zaki, Noah D. Goodman
2021	J	`jnl`	Attention uncovers task-relevant semantics in emotional narrative understanding. Knowl. Based Syst. Thanh-Son Nguyen, Zhengxuan Wu, Desmond C. Ong
2021	A*	`conf`	Context-Guided BERT for Targeted Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. AAAI Zhengxuan Wu, Desmond C. Ong
2021	—	`conf`	Human-AI Collaboration in Healthcare: A Review and Research Agenda. HICSS Yi Lai, Atreyi Kankanhalli, Desmond C. Ong
2021	B	`conf`	Interdisciplinary Advances in Affective Cognition. CogSci Yang Wu, Desmond C. Ong, Hyowon Gweon
2021	B	`conf`	Learning from Agentic Actions: Modelling Causal Inference from Intention. CogSci Dennis W. H. Teo, Desmond C. Ong
2021	J	`jnl`	Modeling Emotion in Complex Stories: The Stanford Emotional Narratives Dataset. IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput. Desmond C. Ong, Zhengxuan Wu, Zhi-Xuan Tan, Marianne Reddan, Isabella Kahhale, Alison Mattek, Jamil Zaki
2021	—	`conf`	Not All Negatives are Equal: Label-Aware Contrastive Loss for Fine-grained Text Classification. EMNLP (1) Varsha Suresh, Desmond C. Ong
2021	J	`jnl`	Not All Negatives are Equal: Label-Aware Contrastive Loss for Fine-grained Text Classification. CoRR Varsha Suresh, Desmond C. Ong
2021	J	`jnl`	On Explaining Your Explanations of BERT: An Empirical Study with Sequence Classification. CoRR Zhengxuan Wu, Desmond C. Ong
2021	—	`conf`	ReaSCAN: Compositional Reasoning in Language Grounding. NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Zhengxuan Wu, Elisa Kreiss, Desmond C. Ong, Christopher Potts
2021	J	`jnl`	ReaSCAN: Compositional Reasoning in Language Grounding. CoRR Zhengxuan Wu, Elisa Kreiss, Desmond C. Ong, Christopher Potts
2021	B	`conf`	Using Knowledge-Embedded Attention to Augment Pre-trained Language Models for Fine-Grained Emotion Recognition. ACII Varsha Suresh, Desmond C. Ong
2021	J	`jnl`	Using Knowledge-Embedded Attention to Augment Pre-trained Language Models for Fine-Grained Emotion Recognition. CoRR Varsha Suresh, Desmond C. Ong
2020	J	`jnl`	Context-Guided BERT for Targeted Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. CoRR Zhengxuan Wu, Desmond C. Ong
2020	A*	`conf`	Factorized Inference in Deep Markov Models for Incomplete Multimodal Time Series. AAAI Zhi-Xuan Tan, Harold Soh, Desmond C. Ong
2020	B	`conf`	Improving Multi-Agent Cooperation using Theory of Mind. CogSci Terence X. Lim, Sidney Tio, Desmond C. Ong
2020	J	`jnl`	Improving Multi-Agent Cooperation using Theory of Mind. CoRR Terence X. Lim, Sidney Tio, Desmond C. Ong
2020	B	`conf`	Intention Inference in a Dynamic Multi-Goal Environment. CogSci Desmond C. Ong, Marie Therese Quieta, Basura Fernando
2020	J	`jnl`	Pragmatically Informative Color Generation by Grounding Contextual Modifiers. CoRR Zhengxuan Wu, Desmond C. Ong
2020	J	`jnl`	Structured Self-Attention Weights Encode Semantics in Sentiment Analysis. CoRR Zhengxuan Wu, Thanh-Son Nguyen, Desmond C. Ong
2020	—	`conf`	Structured Self-AttentionWeights Encode Semantics in Sentiment Analysis. BlackboxNLP@EMNLP Zhengxuan Wu, Thanh-Son Nguyen, Desmond C. Ong
2019	B	`conf`	A Multimodal LSTM for Predicting Listener Empathic Responses Over Time. FG Zhi-Xuan Tan, Arushi Goel, Thanh-Son Nguyen, Desmond C. Ong
2019	J	`jnl`	Applying Probabilistic Programming to Affective Computing. CoRR Desmond C. Ong, Harold Soh, Jamil Zaki, Noah D. Goodman
2019	B	`conf`	Attending to Emotional Narratives. ACII Zhengxuan Wu, Xiyu Zhang, Zhi-Xuan Tan, Jamil Zaki, Desmond C. Ong
2019	J	`jnl`	Attending to Emotional Narratives. CoRR Zhengxuan Wu, Xiyu Zhang, Zhi-Xuan Tan, Jamil Zaki, Desmond C. Ong
2019	B	`conf`	Bayesian Inference of Social Norms as Shared Constraints on Behavior. CogSci Zhi-Xuan Tan, Desmond C. Ong
2019	J	`jnl`	Bayesian Inference of Social Norms as Shared Constraints on Behavior. CoRR Zhi-Xuan Tan, Desmond C. Ong
2019	J	`jnl`	Computational Models of Emotion Inference in Theory of Mind: A Review and Roadmap. Top. Cogn. Sci. Desmond C. Ong, Jamil Zaki, Noah D. Goodman
2019	J	`jnl`	Factorized Inference in Deep Markov Models for Incomplete Multimodal Time Series. CoRR Zhi-Xuan Tan, Harold Soh, Desmond C. Ong
2019	J	`jnl`	Modeling emotion in complex stories: the Stanford Emotional Narratives Dataset. CoRR Desmond C. Ong, Zhengxuan Wu, Zhi-Xuan Tan, Marianne Reddan, Isabella Kahhale, Alison Mattek, Jamil Zaki
2019	A*	`conf`	Robot Capability and Intention in Trust-Based Decisions Across Tasks. HRI Yaqi Xie, Indu P. Bodala, Desmond C. Ong, David Hsu, Harold Soh
2019	J	`jnl`	Robot Capability and Intention in Trust-based Decisions across Tasks. CoRR Yaqi Xie, Indu P. Bodala, Desmond C. Ong, David Hsu, Harold Soh
2018	J	`jnl`	A Multimodal LSTM for Predicting Listener Empathic Responses Over Time. CoRR Zhi-Xuan Tan, Arushi Goel, Thanh-Son Nguyen, Desmond C. Ong
2016	B	`conf`	Emotions in lay explanations of behavior. CogSci Desmond C. Ong, Jamil Zaki, Noah D. Goodman
2016	B	`conf`	Young children and adults integrate past expectations and current outcomes to reason about others' emotions. CogSci Desmond C. Ong, Mika Asaba, Hyowon Gweon
2015	B	`conf`	Near-misses sting even when they are uncontrollable. CogSci Desmond C. Ong, Noah D. Goodman, Jamil Zaki
2014	B	`conf`	Understanding Affective Cognition: Frontiers in modeling reasoning about others' emotions. CogSci Desmond C. Ong, Jamil Zaki, Noah D. Goodman