Good Arguments Against the People Pleasers: How Reasoning Mitigates (Yet Masks) LLM Sycophancy

Zhaoxin Feng, Zheng Chen, Jianfei Ma, Yip Tin Po, Emmanuele Chersoni, Bo Li. Good Arguments Against the People Pleasers: How Reasoning Mitigates (Yet Masks) LLM Sycophancy. In Maria Liakata, Viviane P. Moreira, Jiajun Zhang 0001, David Jurgens, editors, Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), ACL 2026, San Diego, California, United States, July 2-7, 2026. pages 24536-24570, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026. [doi]

@inproceedings{FengCMPCL26,
  title = {Good Arguments Against the People Pleasers: How Reasoning Mitigates (Yet Masks) LLM Sycophancy},
  author = {Zhaoxin Feng and Zheng Chen and Jianfei Ma and Yip Tin Po and Emmanuele Chersoni and Bo Li},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1126/},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/FengCMPCL26},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {24536-24570},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), ACL 2026, San Diego, California, United States, July 2-7, 2026},
  editor = {Maria Liakata and Viviane P. Moreira and Jiajun Zhang 0001 and David Jurgens},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  isbn = {979-8-89176-390-6},
}