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Robert Hawkins is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and directs the Social Interaction Lab. His research focuses on uncovering cognitive mechanisms underlying communication, collaboration, and social interaction through experiments and computational models. He completed his PhD in Psychology at Stanford University (2019) and undergraduate studies in Mathematics and Cognitive Science at Indiana University (2014). Previously, he was a C.V. Starr Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute.
Key research interests include computational cognitive science, cross-cultural communication, pragmatic reasoning, and the application of large language models (LLMs) to collective intelligence studies. His work integrates insights from linguistics, neuroscience, and AI to understand how humans coordinate and adapt during social interactions.
Recent contributions explore topics such as cross-cultural politeness strategies, diagnostic questioning in social inference, and model limitations in multi-modal language understanding. Hawkins collaborates widely with scholars in cognitive science, linguistics, and AI, emphasizing open science practices through initiatives like the Experimentology textbook.
His lab, the Social Interaction Lab, emphasizes experimental and computational methods to study topics like conversational dynamics, group coordination, and the emergence of social norms. He mentors students in these areas, including PhD candidate Yuka Machino.
