Do LLMs differentiate epistemic belief from non-epistemic belief?

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Inspired by Vesga et al. that argues humans have different types of beliefs, it would be interesting to find out whether LLMs similarly have different types of beliefs.

Vesga, A., Van Leeuwen, N., & Lombrozo, T. (2025). Evidence for multiple kinds of belief in theory of mind.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/
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Psychology LLM behavior Implemented:https://github.com/ChicagoHAI/llm-epistemic-belief-claude Implemented:https://github.com/ChicagoHAI/llm-epistemic-belief-codex

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@misc{tan-do-llms-differentiate-2025,
  author = {Tan, Chenhao},
  title = {Do LLMs differentiate epistemic belief from non-epistemic belief?},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://hypogenic.ai/ideahub/idea/HGVv4Z0ALWVHZ9YsstWT}
}

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