From Advice to Accountability: The Two-Stage Idea Behind PRISM

Introduce the core problem: recommending persuasive strategies for the next turn, then scoring the delivered turn against that exact recommendation. Explain why "effectiveness" must be conditioned on context plus speaker–audience dynamics.

Most persuasion research asks: which strategies work? PRISM asks a harder question: which strategies work for this speaker, with this audience, in this moment? The distinction matters because the same tactic—emotional appeal, authority citation, logical argument—produces different outcomes depending on who delivers it to whom and when.

The two-stage design reflects this. Stage one recommends a strategy given the current dialogue context and speaker–audience profile. Stage two evaluates whether the delivered turn actually executed the recommended strategy effectively, conditioned on that same context. Accountability at the second stage is what makes the first-stage recommendation meaningful.