AgentSense: Benchmarking Social Intelligence of Language Agents through Interactive Scenarios
Xinyi Mou, Jingcong Liang, Jiayu Lin, Xinnong Zhang, Xiawei Liu, Shiyue Yang, Rong Ye, Lei Chen
Abstract
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly leveraged to empower autonomous agents to simulate human beings in various fields of behavioral research. However, evaluating their capacity to navigate complex social interactions remains a challenge. Previous studies face limitations due to insufficient scenario diversity, complexity, and a single-perspective focus. To this end, we introduce AgentSense: Benchmarking Social Intelligence of Language Agents through Interactive Scenarios. Drawing on Dramaturgical Theory, AgentSense employs a bottom-up approach to create 1,225 diverse social scenarios constructed from extensive scripts. We evaluate LLM-driven agents through multi-turn interactions, emphasizing both goal completion and implicit reasoning. We analyze goals using ERG theory and conduct comprehensive experiments. Our findings highlight that LLMs struggle with goals in complex social scenarios, especially high-level growth needs, and even GPT-4o requires improvement in private information reasoning.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{mou-etal-2025-agentsense,
title = "{A}gent{S}ense: Benchmarking Social Intelligence of Language Agents through Interactive Scenarios",
author = "Mou, Xinyi and
Liang, Jingcong and
Lin, Jiayu and
Zhang, Xinnong and
Liu, Xiawei and
Yang, Shiyue and
Ye, Rong and
Chen, Lei and
Kuang, Haoyu and
Huang, Xuanjing and
Wei, Zhongyu",
editor = "Chiruzzo, Luis and
Ritter, Alan and
Wang, Lu",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = apr,
year = "2025",
address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.257/",
pages = "4975--5001",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-189-6"
}