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Prompting with Respect: Cultural Norms and User Experience in LLM Interactions
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- Randomized controlled trial
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Despite growing interest in prompt engineering, its influence on user experience-particularly in relation to cultural communication norms-remains largely unexplored. This controlled experiment examined how respectful versus directive prompting-a culturally meaningful contrast in Korean-affects Korean users' psychological experience during LLM interactions. Forty-three Korean female college students were randomly assigned to respectful prompt (RP) (using polite requests, compliments, and gratitude) or directive p…
The gain
In a randomized experiment with 43 Korean female college students, those who wrote polite, grateful prompts to ChatGPT reported significantly higher satisfaction, especially affinity and likability, than those who used imperatives and criticism.
What this doesn’t fix
The experiment involved only 43 Korean female college students on a single writing task, which limits how far the results extend to other groups, languages or tasks.
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1 on file- Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networkingdoi:10.1177/21522715261484255
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v1Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2679, v1: “Prompting with Respect: Cultural Norms and User Experience in LLM Interactions.” Truvace, 2026-11-12. /record/TRV-2026-2679 (accessed on the day you copy it). sha256 272b0e1213ccb111…
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