Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & Org Behavior, Stanford University
Direct, the @pascl-stanford.bsky.social, the AI for Public Benefit Lab, & co-direct @Stanfordpacs Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
Robb Willer
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New ASR paper finds no effect of state right-to-work laws on employment or number of business establishments (1946-2019). Argues that state spillovers, such as tax breaks in non-right-to-work states, explain the non-effect of right-to-work.
gated: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Glad to see this WP from our lab out today, a labor of love over last year.
Kudos to @davidbroska.bsky.social and @jonnekamphorst.bsky.social for their hard work on it!
Please share any comments, suggestions, or criticisms of the research. All are welcome!
New short paper w @jkalla.bsky.social !
Candidates gain from moderation, but less than many theories expect.
Many conclude voters must not care about issues.
This is wrong. Small *average* effects mask large effects on specific issues & are consistent with widespread issue-based voting 🧵
This is a welcome and important step to normalize and popularize the use of Registered Reports.
Thanks @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social for your leadership, and for the work of the neuroscience and behavioral research editors to test and validate the model at Nature.
Dear ChatGPT, Am I the Asshole?
While Reddit users might say yes, your favorite LLM probably won’t.
We present Social Sycophancy: a new way to understand and measure sycophancy as how LLMs overly preserve users' self-image.
Bruce Springsteen has no fucks to give. 👏
Nina.
Newport Jazz Festival, July 4, 1968.
David Redfern.
New in Nature Climate Change, Prof. @robbwiller.bsky.social and @pascl-stanford.bsky.social examine the most persuasive climate change messaging strategies.
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New study from @oii.ox.ac.uk researchers finds friendlier chatbots make more mistakes. Lead author @lujain.bsky.social, second author Franziska Sofia Hafner, senior author @rocher.lc. Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Robb Willer
Jake Grumbach
David Broockman
Brian Nosek
Myra Cheng
Ricky Davila
Johnnie Johnstone
WASHINGTON—In a dire health emergency that forced staffers to quickly mobilize to save the Cabinet member’s life, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was reportedly rushed to the gym Friday after s...
Researchers found adjusting AI systems to be more warm and friendly to users would result in an
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Americans say they want less inequality. Why don’t they support policies to reduce it?
New paper: across 31 nationally representative survey waves (N=384,248) and a preregistered experiment (N=1,009), Americans favor PREdistributive over REdistributive policies 🧵
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