I am a Professor of Sociology, Psychology (by courtesy), and Organizational Behavior (by courtesy) and the Director of the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford University
I study politics, morality, cooperation, and status.
Côté, S., Stellar, J. E., Willer, R., Forbes, R. C., Martin, S. R., & Bianchi, E. C. 2020. "The Psychology of Entrenched Privilege: High Socioeconomic Status Individuals From Affluent Backgrounds Are Uniquely High in Entitlement." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Yuan Chang Leong, Janice Chen, Robb Willer, Jamil Zaki. "Conservative and liberal attitudes drive polarized neural responses to political content." bioRxiv Working Paper.
Jay van Bavel, ...., Robb Willer. In Press. "Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response." Nature Human Behavior.
Jan Voelkel, Joseph Mernyk, and Robb Willer. "Resolving the Progressive Paradox: Conservative Value Framing of Progressive Economic Policies Increases Candidate Support." PsyArXiv Preprint. PRESS RELEASE
National Organization for Women - NYC
June 17, 2020
U.S. Senate Commerce Committee (Majority) staff briefing
April 27, 2020
Society for Affective Science, Presidential Symposium
April 24, 2020
Research & Technology Subcommittee, U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology staff briefing
April 16, 2020
Rapid, Miniconference on COVID-19 Public Health Messaging
April 14, 2020
April 3, 2020