Recent News
Dec 11 2015 | Washington Post
Robb Willer was interviewed about the role of racism in the 2016 presidential election in the Washington Post, the threat of terrorism and the 2016 presidential election in New York Magazine.
Nov 23 2015 | Los Angeles Times
Robb Willer's research on inequality and generosity is the focus of a new article in the Los Angeles Times.
Nov 23 2015 | New York Times
Robb Willer and Matthew Feinberg's article on the key to political persuasion was published in the NY Times.
Nov 23 2015 | Stanford Report
Stanford sociologist Karen Cook found that people with less power want their more powerful partners in negotiations to be trustworthy and act according to that desire.
People in low-power situations are significantly more trusting of more powerful people than vice versa, new Stanford research shows...
Oct 14 2015
Mark Granovetter's well-known theory on riots is profiled in Malcolm Gladwell's latest piece in The New Yorker. The article is also highlighted in NPR's Morning Edition.
How School Shootings Spread
An increasingly ritualized form of violence is attracting unexpected perpetrators.
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Oct 12 2015 | Stanford Report
New research shows how to make effective political arguments, Stanford sociologist says.
Stanford sociologist Robb Willer finds that an effective way to persuade people in politics is to reframe arguments to appeal to the moral values of those holding opposing positions.
Aug 31 2015
Michael Rosenfeld’s work on the gender of breakup, showing that most divorces are wanted by the wife but nonmarital breakups are more gender neutral, which was presented at the 2015 ASA meetings, received a lot of press coverage, including in the New York Times blog Women in the World, The...
Aug 19 2015 | Stanford Report
New research reveals that most social surveys are not measuring what surveyors think is being measured when it comes to sex and gender. To better reflect today's diversity, Stanford sociologist Aliya Saperstein says survey designers should ask themselves if using only one question with two possible...
Jul 24 2015 | Stanford Report
A new study by Stanford researchers describes how American children born into high-income families can expect far greater earnings and income over their lifetimes than children born into low-income families.
When one wins the "birth lottery" by being born into a higher-income family, the economic...
Jun 20 2015 | Época
Aliya Saperstein interviewed for Brazilian news magazine Época about racial identity and Rachel Dolezal.
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