Nicolas Fay

24 papers A* 1B 5C 1Journal 13Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
Activation-Space Personality Steering: Hybrid Layer Selection for Stable Trait Control in LLMs.
EACL (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Pranav Bhandari, Nicolas Fay, Sanjeevan Selvaganapathy, Amitava Datta, Usman Naseem, Mehwish Nasim
2025 J jnl
A Hybrid Theory and Data-driven Approach to Persuasion Detection with Large Language Models.
CoRR
Gia Bao Hoang, Keith J. Ransom, Rachel Stephens, Carolyn Semmler, Nicolas Fay, Lewis Mitchell
2025 J jnl
Activation-Space Personality Steering: Hybrid Layer Selection for Stable Trait Control in LLMs.
CoRR
Pranav Bhandari, Nicolas Fay, Sanjeevan Selvaganapathy, Amitava Datta, Usman Naseem, Mehwish Nasim
2025 A* conf
Can LLM Agents Maintain a Persona in Discourse?
EMNLP
Pranav Bhandari, Nicolas Fay, Michael J. Wise, Amitava Datta, Stephanie Meek, Usman Naseem, Mehwish Nasim
2025 J jnl
Can LLM Agents Maintain a Persona in Discourse?
CoRR
Pranav Bhandari, Nicolas Fay, Michael J. Wise, Amitava Datta, Stephanie Meek, Usman Naseem, Mehwish Nasim
2025 — conf
Evaluating Personality Traits in Large Language Models: Insights from Psychological Questionnaires.
WWW (Companion Volume)
Pranav Bhandari, Usman Naseem, Amitava Datta, Nicolas Fay, Mehwish Nasim
2025 J jnl
Evaluating Personality Traits in Large Language Models: Insights from Psychological Questionnaires.
CoRR
Pranav Bhandari, Usman Naseem, Amitava Datta, Nicolas Fay, Mehwish Nasim
2023 B conf
Reconstructing early human symbolic evolution using transmission experiments.
CogSci
Kristian Tylén, Aske Svane Qvist, Rebecca Foss Kjeldsen, Sergio Gonzalez de La Higuera Rojo, Katrin Heimann, Nicolas Fay, Niels Nørkjær Johannsen, Felix Riede, Marlize Lombard, Riccardo Fusaroli
2023 B conf
Self-Censorship Appears to be an Effective Way of Reducing the Spread of Misinformation on Social Media.
CogSci
Piers Howe, Andrew Perfors, Keith James Ransom, Bradley Walker, Nicolas Fay, Yoshihisa Kashima, Morgan Saletta
2021 J jnl
Socially Situated Transmission: The Bias to Transmit Negative Information is Moderated by the Social Context.
Cogn. Sci.
Nicolas Fay, Bradley Walker, Yoshihisa Kashima, Andrew Perfors
2020 J jnl
Are People Sensitive to Problems in Communication?
Cogn. Sci.
Ashley Micklos, Bradley Walker, Nicolas Fay
2020 J jnl
Network Connectivity Dynamics, Cognitive Biases, and the Evolution of Cultural Diversity in Round-Robin Interactive Micro-Societies.
Cogn. Sci.
José Segovia Martín, Bradley Walker, Nicolas Fay, Monica Tamariz
2019 J jnl
Network connectivity dynamics affect the evolution of culturally transmitted variants.
CoRR
José Segovia Martín, Bradley Walker, Nicolas Fay, Monica Tamariz
2018 J jnl
Universal Principles of Human Communication: Preliminary Evidence From a Cross-cultural Communication Game.
Cogn. Sci.
Nicolas Fay, Bradley Walker, Nik Swoboda, Ichiro Umata, Takugo Fukaya, Yasuhiro Katagiri, Simon Garrod
2017 B conf
Deconstructing Social Interaction: The Complimentary Roles of Behaviour Alignment and Partner Feedback to the Creation of Shared Symbols.
CogSci
Nicolas Fay, Bradley Walker, Nik Swoboda
2017 B conf
The adaptive evolution of early human symbolic behavior.
CogSci
Katrin Heimann, Riccardo Fusaroli, Sergio Gonzalez de La Higuera Rojo, Niels Nørkjær Johannsen, Felix Riede, Nicolas Fay, Marlize Lombard, Kristian Tylén
2015 B conf
Creating New Sign Systems from Scratch: Gesture has the Upper Hand.
CogSci
Casey J. Lister, Nicolas Fay, T. Mark Ellison, Jeneva Ohan
2014 J jnl
Human Communication Systems Evolve by Cultural Selection.
CoRR
Nicolas Fay, Monica Tamariz, T. Mark Ellison, Dale Barr
2013 J jnl
How to Bootstrap a Human Communication System.
Cogn. Sci.
Nicolas Fay, Michael A. Arbib, Simon Garrod
2010 — conf
Reliability of the Manual Segmentation of Pauses in Natural Speech.
IceTAL
Raoul Oehmen, Kim Kirsner, Nicolas Fay
2010 J jnl
The Interactive Evolution of Human Communication Systems.
Cogn. Sci.
Nicolas Fay, Simon Garrod, Leo Roberts, Nik Swoboda
2007 J jnl
Foundations of Representation: Where Might Graphical Symbol Systems Come From?
Cogn. Sci.
Simon Garrod, Nicolas Fay, John Lee, Jon Oberlander, Tracy MacLeod
2004 — conf
The Emergence and Evolution of Graphical Productions.
JSAI Workshops
Nicolas Fay
2004 C conf
Using Graphics to Communicate Across Cultures.
Diagrams
Nicolas Fay, Nik Swoboda, Takugo Fukaya, Ichiro Umata, Yasuhiro Katagiri