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Robb Willer

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Robb Willer

@RobbWiller

Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & OB @Stanford. Direct @pascl_stanford, AI for Public Benefit Lab, & Co-Direct @StanfordPACS.

Palo Alto, CA

Joined August 2014

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Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Jun 17, 2025
Saturday's No Kings protests were massive, inclusive, and nonviolent. It was an honor to team up with @owasow to analyze how nonviolent resistance can wins hearts, minds, and elections.
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Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Aug 7, 2024
🚨New WP: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments?🚨 Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments? Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects 🧵👇
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Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Aug 18, 2022
🚨New WP: How can we reduce partisan animosity & anti-democratic attitudes in US?🚨 We share results of the Strengthening Democracy Challenge: N=32k megastudy testing 25 depolarization interventions Shows effective treatments for many neg outcomes! 🧵👇strengtheningdemocracychallenge.org/paper
Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Oct 18, 2024
Very excited to share that the main paper from the Strengthening Democracy Challenge is out today in @ScienceMagazine! It’s been a long road to get to get to this point. 🧵👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Dec 14, 2021
🚨Come work with us!🚨 The Polarization and Social Change Lab @Stanford has an open Research Coordinator position. We invite applicants from psychology, poli sci, sociology, econ, data science, et al. Position begins in Spring or Summer of 2022. Please forward to any and all!
Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Dec 6, 2022
🚨🚨Come work with us!🚨🚨 I'm excited to announce that Stanford's Polarization and Social Change Lab is recruiting two new, post-doctoral positions: a Postdoctoral Scholar and a Research Scholar! See full thread below for info on both. Please share!
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Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Aug 15, 2022
🚨Results are in for the Strengthening Democracy Challenge. Winners will be announced this week!🚨 ITT we announce the 25 submissions we selected to test. We think these submissions are awesome & hope you do too. But first, how we got here…👇🧵
Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Nov 8, 2024
If you had to pick *1* measure of racial attitudes to predict white Americans' Trump support, we find opposition to anti-racism (agreement w/ statements like "People these days can’t speak their minds without someone accusing them of racism") is most correlated
Rachel Wetts
@RachelWetts
Dec 2, 2022
🚨New WP!🚨 "Antiracism and its Discontents: The Prevalence and Political Influence of Opposition to Antiracism among White Americans" w/ @RobbWiller We find opposition to antiracism is a widespread ideology profoundly shaping US racial politics 🧵 osf.io/preprints/soca…
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Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
May 1, 2024
🚨🚨Do Americans accurately perceive union benefits? 🚨🚨 Our new paper (led by @JonneKamphorst) out this week @PNASNews finds: Americans significantly and systematically underestimate material benefits associated with union benefits. 🧵👇
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Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Sep 2, 2022
🚨🚨New paper “Incivility is Rising Among American Politicians on Twitter” out now in SPPS! 🚨🚨 Is political discourse on Twitter growing more toxic? Is the platform responsible? If so, what can be done about it? 🧵👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Dec 2, 2020
🚨Come work with us!🚨 The Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford has an open post-doctoral position. We invite applications from psychology, poli sci, sociology, econ, data science, et al. Review begins 1/21/2021. Please forward to any and all! postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/op…
Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Apr 8, 2021
🚨New WP🚨 “Elite Party Cues Increase Vaccination Intentions among Republicans” How to convince Republicans-biggest holdout group-to get vaccinated? We find pro-vax messaging from Trump+Rep elites works, whereas Biden+Dems message reduces enthusiasm psyarxiv.com/f9jq5
Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Jan 21, 2017
My talk on how to be persuasive and create political coalitions in America, posted today on TED website ted.com/talks/robb_wil… @TEDTalks
Robb Willer
@RobbWiller
Feb 4, 2021
🚨Come work with us!🚨 The Polarization and Social Change Lab, in partnership with Stanford Impact Labs, invites applications to a NEW post-doc program for scholars looking to make an impact. We invite applicants from sociology, psychology, poli sci, econ, data science, etc 1/X