A Protocol for Human Attribution Ratings to Self-Referential LLM Outputs: Candidate Cue Structure as a Design Input

Abstract

Study protocol and planned preregistration draft; data collection not begun. AI-assistance disclosure: large language models were used, under the author's direction and review, for drafting/editing assistance, literature search and bibliographic verification, and (where applicable) research-engineering of governed pipelines; in the empirical SROP studies LLMs additionally appear as the subject of study and (in R27/NR) as measurement instruments, as described in each paper's Methods. No AI system is an author; the human author bears sole responsibility for content. Version notes: retitled off the Theory-of-Mind co-headline; protocol/Stage-1 draft, no human data collected.