Nicolas Fay

According to our database, Nicolas Fay authored at least 21 papers between 2004 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2026

Activation-Space Personality Steering: Hybrid Layer Selection for Stable Trait Control in LLMs.

Pranav Bhandari, Nicolas Fay, Sanjeevan Selvaganapathy, Amitava Datta, Usman Naseem, Mehwish Nasim

Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026

2025

A Hybrid Theory and Data-driven Approach to Persuasion Detection with Large Language Models.

Gia Bao Hoang, Keith J. Ransom, Rachel Stephens, Carolyn Semmler, Nicolas Fay, Lewis Mitchell

CoRR, November, 2025

Evaluating Personality Traits in Large Language Models: Insights from Psychological Questionnaires.

Pranav Bhandari, Usman Naseem, Amitava Datta, Nicolas Fay, Mehwish Nasim

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, 2025

Can LLM Agents Maintain a Persona in Discourse?

Pranav Bhandari, Nicolas Fay, Michael J. Wise, Amitava Datta, Stephanie Meek, Usman Naseem, Mehwish Nasim

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

2023

Reconstructing early human symbolic evolution using transmission experiments.

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

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Self-Censorship Appears to be an Effective Way of Reducing the Spread of Misinformation on Social Media.

Piers Howe, Andrew Perfors, Keith James Ransom, Bradley Walker, Nicolas Fay, Yoshihisa Kashima, Morgan Saletta

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2021

Socially Situated Transmission: The Bias to Transmit Negative Information is Moderated by the Social Context.

Nicolas Fay, Bradley Walker, Yoshihisa Kashima, Andrew Perfors

Cogn. Sci., 2021

2020

Are People Sensitive to Problems in Communication?

Ashley Micklos, Bradley Walker, Nicolas Fay

Cogn. Sci., 2020

Network Connectivity Dynamics, Cognitive Biases, and the Evolution of Cultural Diversity in Round-Robin Interactive Micro-Societies.

José Segovia Martín, Bradley Walker, Nicolas Fay, Monica Tamariz

Cogn. Sci., 2020

2019

Network connectivity dynamics affect the evolution of culturally transmitted variants.

José Segovia Martín, Bradley Walker, Nicolas Fay, Monica Tamariz

CoRR, 2019

2018

Universal Principles of Human Communication: Preliminary Evidence From a Cross-cultural Communication Game.

Nicolas Fay, Bradley Walker, Nik Swoboda, Ichiro Umata, Takugo Fukaya, Yasuhiro Katagiri, Simon Garrod

Cogn. Sci., 2018

2017

The adaptive evolution of early human symbolic behavior.

Katrin Heimann, Riccardo Fusaroli, Sergio Gonzalez de La Higuera Rojo, Niels Nørkjær Johannsen, Felix Riede, Nicolas Fay, Marlize Lombard, Kristian Tylén

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Deconstructing Social Interaction: The Complimentary Roles of Behaviour Alignment and Partner Feedback to the Creation of Shared Symbols.

Nicolas Fay, Bradley Walker, Nik Swoboda

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2015

Creating New Sign Systems from Scratch: Gesture has the Upper Hand.

Casey J. Lister, Nicolas Fay, T. Mark Ellison, Jeneva Ohan

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

2014

Human Communication Systems Evolve by Cultural Selection.

Nicolas Fay, Monica Tamariz, T. Mark Ellison, Dale Barr

CoRR, 2014

2013

How to Bootstrap a Human Communication System.

Nicolas Fay, Michael A. Arbib, Simon Garrod

Cogn. Sci., 2013

2010

The Interactive Evolution of Human Communication Systems.

Nicolas Fay, Simon Garrod, Leo Roberts, Nik Swoboda

Cogn. Sci., 2010

Reliability of the Manual Segmentation of Pauses in Natural Speech.

Raoul Oehmen, Kim Kirsner, Nicolas Fay

Proceedings of the Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2010

2007

Foundations of Representation: Where Might Graphical Symbol Systems Come From?

Simon Garrod, Nicolas Fay, John Lee, Jon Oberlander, Tracy MacLeod

Cogn. Sci., 2007

2004

The Emergence and Evolution of Graphical Productions.

Nicolas Fay

Proceedings of the New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI 2003 and JSAI 2004 Conferences and Workshops, Niigata, Japan, June 23-27, 2003 and Kanazawa, Japan, May 31, 2004

Using Graphics to Communicate Across Cultures.

Nicolas Fay, Nik Swoboda, Takugo Fukaya, Ichiro Umata, Yasuhiro Katagiri

Proceedings of the Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, 2004