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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, the AI for Public Benefit 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... [18 Authors] ... Willenbring, J. K., Malhotra, N., & Willer, R. 2026. A Registered Report Megastudy on the Persuasiveness of the Most-Cited Climate Messages. Nature Climate Change.
Gallegos, I. O., Shani, C., Shi, W., Bianchi, F., Gainsburg, I., Jurafsky, D., & Willer, R. In Press. Labeling Messages as AI-Generated Does Not Reduce Their Persuasive Effects. PNAS Nexus.
Frederiksen, K., Willer, R., Petersen, M. In Press. The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy. Comparative Political Studies.
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.
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Our field experiment on bridging divides honored with Expy "Bridge Builder" award by the Analyst Institute
