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Robb Willer is a Professor of Sociology at Stanford University (with courtesy appointments in Psychology and the Graduate School of Business). He directs the Politics and Social Change Lab and co-directs the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.
He studies politics, democracy, social change, and the social impacts of artificial intelligence.
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Voelkel, J. G., Ashokkumar, A., Abeles, A. T., Crawford, J., Fuller, K., Redekopp, C., Bongiorno, R., Campbell, T. H., Ecker, U., Feinberg, M., Hart, P. S., Hornsey, M., Jost, J., Kay, A., Leiserowitz, A., Lewandowsky, S., Maibach, E., Nisbet, E., Pidgeon, N., Spence, A., van der Linden, S., Wolsko, C. V., Willenbring, J. K., Malhotra, N., & Willer, R. In Press. A Registered Report Megastudy on the Persuasiveness of the Most-Cited Climate Messages. Nature Climate Change.
Hall, M. E. K., Solomon, B. C., Voelkel, J. G., Stagnaro, M. N., Chu, J., & Willer, R. 2025. Durably Reducing Partisan Animosity through Multiple Scalable Treatments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Bai, H., Voelkel, J. G., Muldowney, S., Eichstaedt, J. C., & Willer, R. 2025. LLM-Generated Messages Can Persuade Humans on Policy Issues. Nature Communications.
Grayson, S., Feinberg, M., Willer, R., & Zaki, J. 2025. Ironic Effects of Negative Gossip in Driving Inaccurate Social Perceptions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Forbes, R., Willer, R., & Stellar, J. E. 2025. Power as a Moral Magnifier: Moral Outrage is Amplified when the Powerful Transgress. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Chang, H. C. H., Druckman, J. N., Ferrara, E., & Willer, R. 2025. Liberals and Conservatives Share Information Differently on Social Media. PNAS Nexus.
