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title: "Language Models Show a \"Women-Are-Wonderful\" Effect in Blame Attribution That is Not Just Leniency"
source: "arXiv AI/CL/LG（论文）"
source_tier: "t2"
url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41116v1"
permalink: "https://feed.astralor.com/items/itm_951d499efa654277e68d79ae"
published: "2026-10-30T01:17:18.000Z"
score: 53
channel: "ai"
tags: ["Language Models Show","Women-Are-Wonderful","Effect","Blame Attribution That","Not Just Leniency","WaW"]
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# Language Models Show a "Women-Are-Wonderful" Effect in Blame Attribution That is Not Just Leniency

## 速览

This paper investigates the Women-Are-Wonderful (WaW) effect in language-model blame attribution: a favorable bias in which women receive more positive evaluations than men. Using 11,270 interpersonal conflicts from r/A…

## 关键点

- This paper investigates the Women-Are-Wonderful (WaW) effect in language-model blame attribution: a favorable bias in which women receive more positive evaluations than men.
- Using 11,270 interpersonal conflicts from r/AmItheAsshole, we construct matched counterfactuals that vary the gender of the person being judged (the original poster) and the person affected (the counter-party).
- Across four language models, gender changes a minority of verdicts, but those changes consistently favor women.

## 全文

This paper investigates the Women-Are-Wonderful (WaW) effect in language-model blame attribution: a favorable bias in which women receive more positive evaluations than men. Using 11,270 interpersonal conflicts from r/AmItheAsshole, we construct matched counterfactuals that vary the gender of the person being judged (the original poster) and the person affected (the counter-party). Across four language models, gender changes a minority of verdicts, but those changes consistently favor women. The effect is strongly role-dependent. Making the original poster a woman reduces the odds of blame by 9--52%, while making the counter-party a woman multiplies them by 2.7--9.2X. Counter-party WaW also varies across conflict types, strengthening in communication and relationship conflicts and weakening in family conflicts. Exploratory probes suggest that counter-party gender can shift judgments of sympathy, reasonableness, harm and protection. WaW is therefore not just leniency toward women being judged: models also judge conduct more harshly when it affects a woman.

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