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Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits

As of 20 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 29 of 29 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2508.19316.

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Outbound references

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Reference 1

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Observation c147418a-b5d9-42f7-8cf6-3b022fac032f · outbound

This paper cites write newline.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits write newline

Reference 2

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Reference 3

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Observation 7d140ed7-fc34-4936-b95b-7cd4c474ce2c · outbound

This paper cites Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

Reference 4

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Reference 5

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Reference 6

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This paper cites Bourdage, Justin Wiltshire, and Kibeom Lee.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Bourdage, Justin Wiltshire, and Kibeom Lee

Reference 7

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Observation 4f2b6e02-b825-48bc-bc78-587fdfc3c17b · outbound

This paper cites Persona Vectors: Monitoring and Controlling Character Traits in Language Models.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Persona Vectors: Monitoring and Controlling Character Traits in Language Models

Reference 8

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Observation c2975dfd-bb1a-4a47-9b8a-472896f4ca88 · outbound

This paper cites ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs

Reference 9

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Reference 10

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Observation b4513994-92f4-4a71-8526-7d1d0140a149 · outbound

This paper cites de Vries, Ingo Zettler, and Benjamin E.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits de Vries, Ingo Zettler, and Benjamin E

Reference 11

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Observation 36fb94b2-73c1-4867-ae29-f72a217ef800 · outbound

This paper cites Dunlop, Kibeom Lee, Michael C.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Dunlop, Kibeom Lee, Michael C

Reference 12

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Observation 68b81bb0-600b-494a-824a-02d94e59dfc1 · outbound

This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Reference 13

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Observation 3b0a43d3-d0c9-430f-bc76-e142607a134f · outbound

This paper cites Hart, Kathryn Richardson, and Chad J.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Hart, Kathryn Richardson, and Chad J

Reference 14

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Reference 15

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Observation 53f0fcb4-b8de-439b-89e3-9c4ea00c872d · outbound

This paper cites Hilbig, Timo Heydasch, and Ingo Zettler.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Hilbig, Timo Heydasch, and Ingo Zettler

Reference 16

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Observation f340976b-db59-4b06-b092-6726ac7a3139 · outbound

This paper cites Hilbig, Ingo Zettler, Florian Leist, and Timo Heydasch.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Hilbig, Ingo Zettler, Florian Leist, and Timo Heydasch

Reference 17

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Observation af0e9065-745f-4f4c-89b0-11550d900346 · outbound

This paper cites Law, Joshua S.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Law, Joshua S

Reference 18

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Reference 19

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Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Unresolved cited work

Reference 20

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Observation 396edffa-b3e4-4111-a0c4-066f75f9c391 · outbound

This paper cites Controllable Context Sensitivity and the Knob Behind It.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Controllable Context Sensitivity and the Knob Behind It

Reference 21

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Observation 9c3580c7-3661-41cd-8324-872abc9cddfa · outbound

This paper cites Steering Llama 2 via Contrastive Activation Addition.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Steering Llama 2 via Contrastive Activation Addition

Reference 22

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Observation a1a16657-71a5-4f59-ace9-ca4e0b3ca055 · outbound

This paper cites The Linear Representation Hypothesis and the Geometry of Large Language Models.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits The Linear Representation Hypothesis and the Geometry of Large Language Models

Reference 23

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Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Bourdage

Reference 24

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Observation 32b354e8-4517-44c0-9f37-143e6d2a171a · outbound

This paper cites Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models

Reference 25

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This paper cites Qwen2 Technical Report.

Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Qwen2 Technical Report

Reference 26

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Reference 27

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Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits Hilbig, Morten Moshagen, and Reinout E

Reference 29

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Pith citing papers

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Resist and Update: Counterfactual Report Coordinates for Incentive-Compatible LLMs cites this paper.

Resist and Update: Counterfactual Report Coordinates for Incentive-Compatible LLMs Sycophancy as compositions of Atomic Psychometric Traits

Reference 2024

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