# Beyond Right and Wrong: Evaluating Second-order Social Reasoning in Large Language Models

**Published:** September 9, 2026
**Author:** Sunny Rai, Jinyi Kuang, Reyhan Jamalova, Annie Lou, Cristina Bicchieri, Niyati Malhotra, Victor Hugo Orozco-Olvera, Ana Maria Munoz-Boudet, Lyle H Ungar, Sharath C Guntuku
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2609.05437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Previous AI alignment efforts have focused primarily on first-order social norms -- teaching models what is socially acceptable or unacceptable (e.g., `do not steal'). However, social intelligence depends not only on norm…

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