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  1. Beyond Value Benchmarks: Measuring Value-Structure Alignment in Large Language Models via Symmetric Q-Sorts

    Jun 20, 2026Jingting Zheng, Yuqi Ren, Linhao Yu +2LLM EvaluationLLM Alignment

    TJUNLP Lab, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China · TJUNLP Lab, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, China

  2. Emergent Alignment

    Jun 17, 2026Martin KolářLLM Self-CorrectionLLM Alignment

    CIIRC, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.

  3. Frame-Conditioned Moral Computation in LLaMA 3.1-8B-Instruct: A Mechanistic Interpretability Audit of Ethical Reasoning

    Jun 13, 2026Ali Dasdan, Manan Shah, W. Russell Neuman +3LLM AlignmentMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    1KD Consulting, CA, USA · 2New York University, NY, USA

  4. Harsher on Male? Evaluating LLMs on Gender-Asymmetric Moral Framing Across Diverse Conflict Scenarios

    Jun 12, 2026Guangzong Si, Dong Wang, Zhenhao Li +3Gender Bias in Language ModelsMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    University of Science and Technology of China · Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo

  5. Right or Wrong, Models Comply: Directional Blindness in LLM Moral Judgment

    Jun 12, 2026Jihye Kim, Jeffrey FlaniganLLM AlignmentMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    University of California, Santa Cruz

  6. ERTS: Adversarial Robustness Testing of Ethical AI via Semantic Perturbation in a Bounded Consequence Space

    Jun 11, 2026Pratyush ChaudhariMoral Reasoning in Language ModelsLanguage Model Safety Evaluation

    Independent Researcher

  7. LLMs Can Better Capture Human Judgments--With the Right Prompts

    Jun 10, 2026Danica Dillion, Chen Cecilia Liu, Baihui Wang +5Human Preference EvaluationLLM Alignment

    Complexity Science Hub, Vienna · The Ohio State University · University of Cambridge +2

  8. Normative Robustness as a Frontier for Non-Verifiable Reasoning in LLMs

    Jun 10, 2026Elizaveta Tennant, Benjamin Henke, Anita Keshmirian +5Moral Reasoning in Language ModelsLanguage Model Robustness

    Google DeepMind · Imperial College London · Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London +2

  9. Constrained Semantic Decompression in LLMs through Persian Proverb-Conditioned Story Generation

    Jun 10, 2026Zahra Habibzadeh, Paria Khoshtab, Amir Mesbah +1LLM EvaluationLLM Grounding

    Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies, Khatam University, Iran

  10. Are LLMs Bad at Moral Reasoning?

    Jun 10, 2026Menghang Zhu, Seth LazarLLM EvaluationMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    School of Philosophy (Political Philosophy) Renmin University of China · School of Government and Policy Johns Hopkins University

  11. Emergent alignment and the projectability of ethical personas

    Jun 8, 2026Guillermo Del Pinal, Youngchan Lee, Calum McNamara +1Moral Reasoning in Language ModelsLanguage Model Safety Evaluation

    University of Massachusetts Amherst · Indiana University Bloomington

  12. To Nuke or Not to Nuke: LLMs' (Missing) Ethical Reasoning and Actions in a High-Stakes Decision-Making Simulation

    Jun 6, 2026John Chen, Sihan Cheng, Can Gurkan +1Moral Reasoning in Language ModelsLLM Agent Evaluation

    University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA · Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

  13. Staying with the Uncertainty: Uncertainty-Scaffolding Strategies for Artificial Moral Advisors in LLM-to-LLM Simulated Conversations

    Jun 4, 2026Salvatore Greco, Hainiu Xu, Jacopo Domenicucci +2Moral Reasoning in Language ModelsAI Alignment

    Centre for Data Futures, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London · Department of Informatics, King’s College London · LangAI, Center for Language AI Research, Tohoku University +1

  14. PreAct-Bench: Benchmarking Predictive Monitoring in LLMs

    Jun 3, 2026Hainiu Xu, Italo Luis da Silva, Jiangnan Ye +7LLM Safety BenchmarksMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    King’s College London · National University of Singapore · Southern University of Science and Technology +3

  15. NoRA: Evaluating Grounded Reasonableness in Visual First-person Normative Action Reasoning

    Jun 3, 2026Sichao Li, Sai Ma, Daniel Kilov +3VLM EvaluationMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    The University of Sydney · Australian National University · RMIT University +1

  16. Auditing LLM-Governed Social Robots with Culture-Specific Moral Gradients

    Jun 2, 2026Carmen Ng, Gjergji KasneciMultilingual Language Model EvaluationMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  17. Do Gender Cues Affect LLM Value Trade-offs? Evidence from a Controlled Decision Benchmark

    Jun 1, 2026Yangyang Liu, Dong Yu, Pengyuan LiuGender Bias in Language ModelsMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    Beijing Language and Culture University

  18. RoleCDE:Benchmarking and Mitigating Role-Alignment Trade-offs in Role-Playing Agents

    Jun 1, 2026Huayi Lai, Shichao Song, Simin Niu +5Moral Reasoning in Language ModelsAI Agent Benchmarks

    School of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

  19. Do Large Language Models Encode Institutional Experience? Evidence from Cross-Linguistic Moral Reasoning Under Ambiguity

    May 29, 2026Nattavudh PowdthaveeMultilingual Language Model EvaluationMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  20. Every Act Has Its Price: Compressed Moral Composition in Frontier LLMs

    May 29, 2026Weijia Zhang, Ruiqi Chen, Yunze Xiao +1LLM EvaluationMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · University of Michigan · Carnegie Mellon University +1

  21. Omissive Bias in Religious Representation: Benchmarking LLM Answers to Everyday Ethical Decision-making

    May 23, 2026David Wingate, Sheryl Carty, Joshua Coates +13Moral Reasoning in Language ModelsSocial Bias in Language Models

    1Brigham Young University · 2B. H. Roberts Foundation · 5Yeshiva University +2

  22. Naturalistic measure of social norms alignment

    May 22, 2026Yevhen Kostiuk, Kenneth Enevoldsen, Peter Bjerregaard Vahlstrup +2Social DilemmasLLM Evaluation

    Aarhus University

  23. What Does the AI Doctor Value? Auditing Pluralism in the Clinical Ethics of Language Models

    May 18, 2026Payal Chandak, Victoria Alkin, David Wu +11Moral Reasoning in Language ModelsHealthcare

  24. How Does Thinking Mode Change LLM Moral Judgments? A Controlled Instant-vs-Thinking Comparison Across Five Frontier Models

    May 6, 2026Sai Sourabh MadurLLM EvaluationMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    Independent researcher (ex-Meta)

  25. Where Paths Split: Localized, Calibrated Control of Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models

    May 5, 2026Chenchen Yuan, Zheyu Zhang, Gjergji KasneciLLM AlignmentMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich · School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)

  26. Moral Sensitivity in LLMs: A Tiered Evaluation of Contextual Bias via Behavioral Profiling and Mechanistic Interpretability

    May 4, 2026Yash Aggarwal, Atmika Gorti, Vinija Jain +3Moral Reasoning in Language ModelsSocial Bias in Language Models

    University of Maryland, College Park · 2Purdue University · 3Meta +5

  27. Assert, don't describe: Linguistic features that shift LLM reasoning about animal welfare

    Apr 30, 2026Jasmine Brazilek, Harper DunnMoral Reasoning in Language ModelsLanguage Model Post-Training

    Compassion Aligned Machine Learning (CaML) · Independent researcher

  28. Helpfulness Hurts: Domain-Dependent Degradation of Mid-Trained Compassion Values Under Post-Training

    Apr 30, 2026Jasmine Brazilek, Juliana SeawellMoral Reasoning in Language ModelsRL Post-Training

    †Compassion Aligned Machine Learning (CaML)

  29. Ulterior Motives: Detecting Misaligned Reasoning in Continuous Thought Models

    Apr 25, 2026Sharan RamjeeLLM Backdoor AttacksMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    Stanford University

  30. Recognition Without Authorization: LLMs and the Moral Order of Online Advice

    Apr 24, 2026Tom van NuenenMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    Social Sciences Data Lab UC Berkeley