Beyond Sycophancy: Structured Resistance and Compliance in LLM Moral Reasoning
Building socially calibrated large language models, which can learn from others without simply yielding to them, requires more than reducing sycophancy as a one-dimensional failure mode. Models must distinguish when to incorporate others' perspectives from when to maintain a well-grounded moral judgment. We study the broader resistance-compliance process governing this distinction. Across three studies, we show that models' judgment revision is structured along three dimensions that parallel classic phenomena in human social psychology: the distance between an incoming view and the model's initial position, the source attribution of that view, and the coalition structure supporting it. Mo...
| Authors | Baihui Wang, Bernard Koch |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 23 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 23 July 2026 |
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