@inproceedings{park-etal-2026-critical, title = "Critical or Compliant? The Double-Edged Sword of Reasoning in Chain-of-Thought Explanations", author = "Park, Eunkyu and Deng, Wesley Hanwen and Varadarajan, Vasudha and Yan, Mingxi and Kim, Gunhee and Sap, Maarten and Eslami, Motahhare", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2050/", pages = "46688--46708", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }