Emotionally Charged, Logically Blurred: AI-driven Emotional Framing Impairs Human Fallacy Detection

ArXi:2510.09695v3 Announce Type: replace Logical fallacies are common in public communication and can mislead audiences; fallacious arguments may still appear convincing despite lacking soundness, because convincingness is inherently subjective. We present the first computational study of how emotional framing interacts with fallacies and convincingness, using large language models (LLMs) to systematically change emotional appeals in fallacious arguments.