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Robb Willer
Born1977 (age 46–47)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCornell University
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford University
Websitewww.robbwiller.org

Robb Willer (born 1977) is an American social psychologist who studies politics, morality, status, cooperation, and masculinity. He is a professor of sociology, psychology, and organizational behavior at Stanford University.[1]. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Cornell University in sociology[2][3].

Research

Robb Willer has published more than 40 scientific articles in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences, and Psychological Science[4][5]. He has received grants from the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and the National Science Foundation[6]. As of July 12, 2017, his Google Scholar h-index was 28 and his i10-index was 47, with 4,797 citations[7].

Much of Willer's research focuses on political psychology and sociology, exploring both sources of political polarization and ways it can be reduced[8][9]. He and Matthew Feinberg developed the idea of "moral reframing[10]." Based on moral foundations theory, moral reframing is a technique of political persuasion in which a political message draws a connection between a given issue and the audience's assumed moral values[11]. Willer's talk on political communication has been viewed over 1 million times since it was posted on the TED website January 20, 2017[12].

Willer's other research on politics emphasizes the effects of various forms of threat and anxiety on political attitudes, for example, the effects of racial status threats[13], terror threats[14], and masculinity threats[15]. He has studied masculine overcompensation, showing that men whose masculinity has been threatened tend to adopt more stereotypically masculine attitudes on issues like war and gay rights[16].

His Masters thesis used the text from the Sokal affair[17] to investigate the effects of academic status on the evaluation of unintelligible academic texts, finding that unintelligible texts are evaluated more positively if authored by high status academics.

He contributed research to the best-selling book Modern Romance: An Investigation[18], by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg.

Teaching

Prior to moving Stanford, Professor Willer was an assistant professor at UC Berkeley's Sociology Department[19]. Willer was the 2009 recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching[20], the only teaching award given by the UC-Berkeley student body.

Media Coverage

Willer's research has received widespread media coverage including from the Chicago Tribune[21], CNN[22], Forbes[23], Huffington Post[24][25], LA Times[26], Nature[27], New York Daily News[28], New York Magazine[29][30][31], NPR's Morning Edition[32], Pacific Standard[33][34][35], Salon[36], San Francisco Chronicle[37][38], Science[39], Scientific American[40],The Atlantic[41][42][43][44][45][46][47], The Daily Telegraph[48], The New York Times[49][50][51][52] , Time[53], USA Today[54][55], Vox[56][57], Wall Street Journal[58][59], Washington Post[60][61][62]

Selected Publications

• Michael W. Macy and Robb Willer. 2002. "From Factors to Actors: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling." Annual Review of Sociology. 28:143-66.

• Damon Centola, Robb Willer, and Michael W. Macy. 2005. "The Emperor's Dilemma: A Computational Model of Self-Enforcing Norms." American Journal of Sociology. 110(4):1009-40.

• Pat Barclay and Robb Willer. 2007. "Partner Choice Creates Competitive Altruism in Humans." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 274:749-753.

• Robb Willer, Ko Kuwabara, and Michael W. Macy. 2009. "The False Enforcement of Unpopular Norms." American Journal of Sociology. 115:451-90.

• Robb Willer. 2009. "Groups Reward Individual Sacrifice: The Status Solution to the Collective Action Problem." American Sociological Review. 74:23-43.

• Matthew Feinberg and Robb Willer. 2011. "Apocalypse Soon? Dire Messages Reduce Belief in Global Warming by Contradicting Just World Beliefs." Psychological Science. 22:34-38.

• Matthew Feinberg, Robb Willer, and Dacher Keltner. 2012. "Flustered and Faithful: Embarrassment as a Signal of Prosociality." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 102:81-97.

• Cameron Anderson, Robb Willer, Gavin Kilduff, and Courtney Brown. 2012. "The Origins of Deference: When do People Prefer Lower Status?" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 102:1077-1088.

• Matthew Feinberg, Robb Willer, Jennifer Stellar, and Dacher Keltner. 2012. "The Virtues of Gossip: Reputational Information Sharing as Prosocial Behavior." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

• Matthew Feinberg and Robb Willer. 2013. "The Moral Roots of Environmental Attitudes." Psychological Science. 24:56-62.

• Robb Willer, Christabel Rogalin, Bridget Conlon, and Michael T. Wojnowicz. 2013. "Overdoing Gender: A Test of the Masculine Overcompensation Thesis." American Journal of Sociology. 118:980-1022.

• Stéphane Côté, Julian House, and Robb Willer. 2015. “High Economic Inequality Leads Higher Income Individuals to be Less Generous.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

• Matthew Feinberg and Robb Willer. 2015. "From Gulf to Bridge: When Moral Arguments Facilitate Political Influence." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

References

  1. ^ Stanford University
  2. ^ Stanford University
  3. ^ robbwiller.org
  4. ^ Google Scholar
  5. ^ Stanford University
  6. ^ Stanford University
  7. ^ Google Scholar
  8. ^ Stanford University
  9. ^ robbwiller.org
  10. ^ Stanford News
  11. ^ Psychological Science
  12. ^ TED
  13. ^ Washington Post
  14. ^ Current Research in Social Psychology
  15. ^ American Journal of Sociology
  16. ^ Stanford News
  17. ^ Sokal affair
  18. ^ Modern Romance: An Investigation
  19. ^ Stanford University
  20. ^ Daily Cal
  21. ^ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-08-14/features/0508140387_1_suv-masculine-attitudes
  22. ^ http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/18/gossip-may-have-social-purpose-study-says/
  23. ^ http://www.forbes.com/sites/levoleague/2012/02/28/ever-wish-you-felt-less-embarrassed-onstage-turns-out-embarrassment-might-be-playing-in-your-favor/
  24. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/we-the-people-and-we-our-media_us_5953f56ae4b0326c0a8d0d39
  25. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-supporters-racial-fear_us_572cf06de4b016f37895c5e8
  26. ^ http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-income-inequality-rich-stingier-20151123-story.html
  27. ^ http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110104/full/news.2011.701.html
  28. ^ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/atheists-generous-religious-helping-study-article-1.1072386
  29. ^ http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/10/how-conservatives-can-sway-liberals-and-vice-versa.html#
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  34. ^ http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/how-to-convince-men-to-help-the-poor
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  37. ^ http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Embarrassment-seen-as-a-sign-of-many-virtues-2324315.php%20%20
  38. ^ http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Research-shows-generosity-repaid-on-many-levels-2452282.php
  39. ^ http://news.sciencemag.org/2005/08/how-sell-humvees-men
  40. ^ http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/is-climate-change-too-scary-10-11-28/
  41. ^ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/working-toward-the-same-ends-for-different-reasons/531666/
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