Robb Willer
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American sociologist and social psychologist
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- PhD Sociology Cornell University
- Bachelors Sociology University of Iowa
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robb Willer is an American sociologist and social psychologist known for his work on political persuasion, polarization, democracy, and morality. He is a professor of sociology, psychology, and organizational behavior at Stanford University where he is the Director of the Polarization and Social Change Lab and Faculty Co-Director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.
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Published Works
- Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response (2020) (3244)
- The Moral Roots of Environmental Attitudes (2013) (612)
- Groups Reward Individual Sacrifice: The Status Solution to the Collective Action Problem (2009) (497)
- Partner choice creates competitive altruism in humans (2007) (418)
- The Emperor’s Dilemma: A Computational Model of Self‐Enforcing Norms1 (2005) (306)
- The Social Structure of Political Echo Chambers: Variation in Ideological Homophily in Online Networks (2017) (276)
- Gossip and Ostracism Promote Cooperation in Groups (2014) (271)
- Apocalypse Soon? (2011) (247)
- Altruism and Indirect Reciprocity: The Interaction of Person and Situation in Prosocial Behavior (2008) (246)
- The virtues of gossip: reputational information sharing as prosocial behavior. (2012) (238)
- Overdoing Gender: A Test of the Masculine Overcompensation Thesis1 (2013) (237)
- Beyond Altruism: Sociological Foundations of Cooperation and Prosocial Behavior (2015) (200)
- High economic inequality leads higher-income individuals to be less generous (2015) (188)
- From Gulf to Bridge (2015) (168)
- For whom do the ends justify the means? Social class and utilitarian moral judgment. (2013) (146)
- A sense of powerlessness fosters system justification: Implications for the legitimation of authority, hierarchy, and government (2015) (141)
- Privilege on the Precipice: Perceived Racial Status Threats Lead White Americans to Oppose Welfare Programs (2018) (136)
- Flustered and faithful: embarrassment as a signal of prosociality. (2012) (136)
- The origins of deference: when do people prefer lower status? (2012) (118)
- Virtual reality perspective-taking increases cognitive empathy for specific others (2018) (115)
- The false enforcement of unpopular norms. (2009) (92)
- What drives the gender gap in charitable giving? Lower empathy leads men to give less to poverty relief. (2015) (85)
- Structure, Identity, and Solidarity (2012) (77)
- The False Enforcement of Unpopular Norms1 (2009) (77)
- Status Hierarchies and the Organization of Collective Action (2012) (76)
- Liberating Reason From the Passions (2012) (72)
- Moral reframing: A technique for effective and persuasive communication across political divides (2019) (70)
- Threats to Racial Status Promote Tea Party Support Among White Americans (2016) (66)
- Culture, Identity, and Structure in Social Exchange: A Web-based Trust Experiment in the United States and Japan (2007) (64)
- Elite party cues increase vaccination intentions among Republicans (2021) (60)
- The Social Significance of Spirituality: New Perspectives on the Compassion-Altruism Relationship (2013) (60)
- A Wealth and Status-Based Model of Residential Segregation (2007) (59)
- The Role of Gender Identity Threat in Perceptions of Date Rape and Sexual Coercion (2012) (58)
- Does Violent Protest Backfire? Testing a Theory of Public Reactions to Activist Violence (2018) (57)
- The activist's dilemma: Extreme protest actions reduce popular support for social movements. (2020) (53)
- My Brother’s Keeper? Compassion Predicts Generosity More Among Less Religious Individuals (2012) (50)
- Hierarchy and Its Discontents: Status Disagreement Leads to Withdrawal of Contribution and Lower Group Performance (2016) (47)
- Gut check: reappraisal of disgust helps explain liberal-conservative differences on issues of purity. (2014) (44)
- My Brother’s Keeper? (2013) (43)
- Unethical and Inept? The Influence of Moral Information on Perceptions of Competence (2018) (43)
- A status theory of collective action (2009) (42)
- Gossip as an effective and low-cost form of punishment (2012) (42)
- Do Status Hierarchies Benefit Groups? A Bounded Functionalist Account of Status (2014) (39)
- Exploring dynamic networks: hypotheses and conjectures (2000) (37)
- Hidden Paths from Morality to Cooperation: Moral Judgments Promote Trust and Trustworthiness (2013) (31)
- "Thou Shalt Not Kill": Religious Fundamentalism, Conservatism, and Rule-Based Moral Processing (2013) (30)
- Conservative and liberal attitudes drive polarized neural responses to political content (2020) (29)
- How Do the Powerful Attain Status? The Roots of Legitimate Power Inequalities (2012) (27)
- The Corruption of Value (2014) (23)
- Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Popular Support for Social Movements (2017) (23)
- The Trouble with Invisible Men (2010) (21)
- Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle? Experimental Evidence That Racial Resentment and Political Ideology Condition Responses to Racially Encoded Messages (2019) (21)
- POWER, STATUS, AND COLLECTIVE ACTION: DEVELOPING FUNDAMENTAL THEORIES TO ADDRESS A SUBSTANTIVE PROBLEM (2003) (20)
- Partner choice creates competitive altruism (2007) (18)
- No Atheists in Foxholes: Motivated Reasoning and Religious Belief (2009) (17)
- The Social Structure Of Political Echo Chambers: Ideology Leads To Asymmetries in Online Political Communication Networks (2011) (17)
- Did Ohio’s Vaccine Lottery Increase Vaccination Rates? A Pre-Registered, Synthetic Control Study (2022) (17)
- The Psychology of Entrenched Privilege: High Socioeconomic Status Individuals From Affluent Backgrounds Are Uniquely High in Entitlement (2020) (16)
- The Enforcement of Moral Boundaries Promotes Cooperation and Prosocial Behavior in Groups (2017) (16)
- Religious identity cues increase vaccination intentions and trust in medical experts among American Christians (2021) (16)
- The Trouble with Invisible Men How Reputational Concerns Motivate Generosity (2010) (14)
- Reciprocity on the Hardwood: Passing Patterns among Professional Basketball Players (2012) (13)
- Men’s Overpersistence and the Gender Gap in Science and Mathematics (2019) (13)
- Correcting inaccurate metaperceptions reduces Americans’ support for partisan violence (2021) (13)
- Interventions Reducing Affective Polarization Do Not Improve Anti-Democratic Attitudes (2021) (12)
- Influence Over Observers of Structural Power: An Experimental Investigation (2005) (12)
- Judgments of Economic Fairness Are Based More on Perceived Economic Mobility Than Perceived Inequality (2020) (10)
- Social mechanisms and generative explanations: Computational models with double agents (2011) (9)
- Resolving the Progressive Paradox: Conservative Value Framing of Progressive Economic Policies Increases Candidate Support (2019) (9)
- Success-Breeds-Success in Collective Political Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2016) (7)
- Incivility Is Rising Among American Politicians on Twitter (2022) (7)
- Building a model for solidarity and cohesion using three theories (2002) (7)
- Replications provide mixed evidence that inequality moderates the association between income and generosity (2020) (7)
- Explaining the Gender Gap in Charitable Giving Lower Empathy Leads Men to Give Less to Poverty Relief (2012) (6)
- Overdoing Gender* (2005) (6)
- The Role of Metanetworks in Network Evolution (2007) (6)
- Homophily and acrophily as drivers of political segregation (2020) (5)
- Interventions to reduce partisan animosity (2022) (5)
- Changing Americans’ Attitudes about Immigration: Using Moral Framing to Bolster Factual Arguments (2021) (4)
- The effects of racial status threat on White Americans’ support for Donald Trump: Results of five experimental tests (2021) (4)
- Beliefs Apocalypse Soon ? : Dire Messages Reduce Belief in Global Warming by Contradicting Just-World (2011) (4)
- Resolving the Progressive Paradox: The Effects of Moral Reframing on Support for Economically Progressive Candidates (2020) (4)
- Stigma and Glucose Levels: Testing Ego Depletion and Arousal Explanations of Stereotype Threat Effects. (2011) (3)
- Using Short Messages to Encourage COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors (2020) (3)
- Culture, Identity, and Structure in Social Exchange: A Web-based Trust Experiment in the U.S. and Japan (2007) (3)
- Belief in the Utility of Cross-Partisan Empathy Reduces Partisan Animosity and Facilitates Political Persuasion (2022) (3)
- Consensus and Contribution: Shared Status Hierarchies Promote Group Success (2013) (3)
- Symbolic Unity, Dynastic Continuity, and Countervailing Power: Monarchies, Republics, and the Economy (2018) (2)
- Reducing Explicit Blatant Dehumanization by Correcting Exaggerated Meta-Perceptions (2022) (2)
- Pragmatic bias impedes women’s access to political leadership (2021) (2)
- Radical flanks of social movements can increase support for moderate factions (2022) (1)
- Negative Associations in Word Embeddings Predict Anti-black Bias across Regions-but Only via Name Frequency (2022) (1)
- Navigating the Progressive Paradox: The Effects of Value Reframing on Support for Economically Progressive Candidates (2021) (1)
- Attitudes toward Abortion Questionnaire (2015) (1)
- Regional Negative Bias in Word Embeddings Predicts Racial Animus-but only via Name Frequency (2022) (1)
- The Effects of Dire and Solvable Messages on Belief in Climate Change: A Replication Study (2021) (1)
- The effects of short messages encouraging prevention behaviors early in the COVID-19 pandemic (2023) (0)
- Disgust Regulation Measure (2014) (0)
- Lecture 2: Experiments (2009) (0)
- Testing the Effects of Message Framing on Support for Poverty Relief (2015) (0)
- The Structure of Political Echo Chambers: How ideology leads to asymmetries in political communication networks. (2011) (0)
- Endorsements from Republican politicians can increase confidence in U.S. elections (2023) (0)
- Lecture 12: Obedience I (2009) (0)
- Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms (2011) (0)
- Lecture 10: Conformity and Norms and Review for First Exam (2009) (0)
- Lecture 1: Introduction to Social Psychology (2009) (0)
- Dissertation abstract: A status theory of collective action (2007) (0)
- Lecture 30: Relationships (2009) (0)
- Popular Support for Balancing Equity and Efficiency in Resource Allocation: A Case Study in Online Advertising to Increase Welfare Program Awareness (2023) (0)
- Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes (2022) (0)
- Lecture 7: Conformity (2009) (0)
- Measure of One's Tendency to Feel Embarrassment (2014) (0)
- Durably Reducing Americans’ Dehumanization of Rival Partisans (2021) (0)
- The micro velvet glove: Low status group members are compensated for their deference. (2014) (0)
- Amplification of emotion on social media. (2023) (0)
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