Robin Schimmelpfennig

@schimmelrob

PostDoc @Max_Planck_CHM (w/@iyadrahwan) | PhD w/ @effersonCharles @mmuthukrishna | Prv. @googleAI , @FehrAdvice #behavior #culture #organizations #AI

Lausanne, Switzerland robinschimmelpfennig.com Joined October 2017

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Robin Schimmelpfennig @schimmelrob Feb 12, 2025

Have you ever wondered why findings in organizational research are not always applicable to practical contexts & grand challenges our times? 🧐
Maybe it is the of data we sample?!
New paper out in JOM Yearly Review!

@CElbaek
Panagiotis Mitkidis
@anisha0singh
Quinetta Roberson

Robin Schimmelpfennig @schimmelrob Sep 17

New preprint out!

Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان Verified account @iyadrahwan Sep 17

Introducing: Time Machine Experiments 🚀 ⏳

in which participants 'travel' to the past, and interact with a mind from the year 1930 (simulated by an AI with knowledge cut-off).

Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.15468

This is an example of what we recently called "Science Fiction Science" (Sci-Fi-Sci)

Led by our @Max_Planck_CHM member @hiromu1996 @schimmelrob and Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, together with @LevinBrinkmann Alejandro H. Artiles and Jean-Francois Bonnefon @azimshariff

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Robin Schimmelpfennig @schimmelrob Feb 27

Excited that @aidaa will present our paper at @SPSPnews meeting tomorrow in Chicago!

We studied 3,500 people across 10 countries on preferences, perceptions, and the impact of AI anthropomorphism!

Thanks to my brilliant coauthors @blahtino @aidaaand @vinodkpg. @GoogleResearch

Robin Schimmelpfennig @schimmelrob Jan 21

💁‍♂️New paper on AI anthropomorphism and it’s effects on human psyche & behavior. For details, see Aida’s thread 👇

Joint work with a great Tram of co-authors and mentors @aidaa @vinodkpg and @blahtino, which we conducted during my research internship at @GoogleResearch.

Aida Davani @aidaa Jan 21

With over 1B users interacting with AI designed to mimic human behavior, we are in the midst of a massive, unregulated social experiment.

Does anthropomorphic AI design manipulate perception or facilitate misplaced trust?

Our latest research challenges prevailing narratives.🧵
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Robin Schimmelpfennig @schimmelrob Apr 4, 2024

Great work on understanding the *causal* effect of culture on psychological outcomes!

Thomas Talhelm @ThomasTalhelm Apr 4, 2024

🚨 New paper! 🚨 Rice theory = labor and irrigation networks of rice farming causes collectivism, but causality is hard to nail down in the pesky real world. Then THIS happened... nature.com/articles/s4146…

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