Robb Willer Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business Curriculum Vitae available Online
Bio
BIO Robb Willer is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology, Psychology (by courtesy), and the Graduate School of Business (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Cornell University and his B.A. in Sociology from the University of Iowa. He previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Willer’s teaching and research focus on the bases of social order. One line of his research investigates the factors driving the emergence of collective action, norms, solidarity, generosity, and status hierarchies. In other research, he explores the social psychology of political attitudes, including the effects of fear, prejudice, and masculinity in contemporary U.S. politics. Most recently, his work has focused on morality, studying how people reason about what is right and wrong and the social consequences of their judgments. His research involves various empirical and theoretical methods, including laboratory and field experiments, surveys, direct observation, archival research, physiological measurement, agent-based modeling, and social network analysis.
Willer’s research has appeared in such journals as American Sociology Review, American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Proceedings of the Royal Society B:Biological Sciences,and Social Networks.He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. His work has received paper awards from the American Sociological Association’s sections on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity, Mathematical Sociology, Peace, War, and Social Conflict, and Rationality and Society.
His research has also received widespread media coverage including from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, Science, Nature, Time, U.S. News and World Report, Scientific American, Harper’s, Slate, CNN, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, and National Public Radio.
Willer was the 2009 recipient of the Golden Apple Teaching award, the only teaching award given by UC-Berkeley's student body.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS • Professor, Sociology • Professor (By courtesy), Organizational Behavior
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS • Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, (2012-2013) 1 OF 7
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HONORS AND AWARDS • Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section Outstanding Article Award, Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association (2013) 1 OF 18
BOARDS, ADVISORY COMMITTEES, PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS • Reviewer, American Sociological Review • Reviewer, American Journal of Sociology 1 OF 59
PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS • Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION • Ph.D., Cornell University , Sociology (2006) 1 OF 3 Teaching
COURSES 2021-22 • Philanthropy and Civil Society: EDUC 374 (Aut, Win) • Philanthropy and Civil Society: LAW 7071 (Aut, Win)
2020-21 • Philanthropy and Civil Society: EDUC 374 (Aut, Win, Spr)
2019-20 • Philanthropy and Civil Society: EDUC 374 (Aut, Win, Spr)
2018-19 • The Social Psychology of Contemporary American Politics: SOC 298, SOC 398 (Aut) 1 OF 4
STANFORD ADVISEES Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Dan Muise
1 OF 5 Publications
PUBLICATIONS • A Sense of Powerlessness Fosters System Justification: Implications for the Legitimation of Authority, Hierachry, and Government Political Psychology Willer, R., der Toorn, J. V., Feinberg, M., Jost, J. T., Kay, A. C., Tyler, T., Wilmuth, C. 2014
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