@article{whenhelpfulnessbecomessycophancysycophan,
  title = {When Helpfulness Becomes Sycophancy: Sycophancy is a Boundary Failure Between Social Alignment and Epistemic Integrity in Large Language Models},
  author = {Jiechen Li and Catherine A. Barry and Rishika Randev and Janet Chen and Ella Jorgensen and Brinnae Bent},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.05403},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05403},
}