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Robert D. Hawkins
Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Stanford University
Joined
October 2018
Names
Robert D. Hawkins
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Robert Hawkins
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Robert X. D. Hawkins
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Robert D Hawkins
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****@princeton.edu
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****@wisc.edu
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Career & Education History
Assistant Professor
Linguistics,
Stanford University
(stanford.edu)
2024
–
Present
Assistant Professor
Psychology,
University of Wisconsin - Madison
(wisc.edu)
2023
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2024
Postdoc
Princeton Neuroscience Institute,
Princeton University
(princeton.edu)
2019
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2023
PhD student
Psychology,
Stanford University
(stanford.edu)
2014
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2019
Undergrad student
Cognitive Science and Mathematics,
Indiana University
(indiana.edu)
2010
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2014
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisee
Ke Fang
2024
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Present
PhD Advisee
Jess Mankewitz
2023
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Present
Postdoc Advisor
Tom Griffiths
2019
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2023
PhD Advisor
Noah Goodman
2014
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2019
Expertise
No areas of expertise listed
Publications
Talk is Cheap, Communication is Hard: Dynamic Ground- ing Failures and Repair in Multi-Agent Negotiation
Yiheng Yao
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Chelsea Zou
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Robert D. Hawkins
OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
Readers:
Everyone
Act or Clarify? Modeling Sensitivity to Uncertainty and Cost in Communication
Polina Tsvilodub
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Karl Mulligan
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Todd Snider
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Robert D. Hawkins
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Michael Franke
CoRR 2026
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Everyone
Natural language communication enables groups to overcome unrepresentative private evidence
Yuliya Zubak
,
Robert Hawkins
Crossref
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Everyone
When More Words Say Less: Decoupling Length and Specificity in Image Description Evaluation
Rhea Kapur
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Robert D. Hawkins
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Elisa Kreiss
CoRR 2026
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Everyone
Accommodation and Epistemic Vigilance: A Pragmatic Account of Why LLMs Fail to Challenge Harmful Beliefs
Myra Cheng
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Robert D. Hawkins
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Dan Jurafsky
CoRR 2026
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Everyone
Signaling social identity in referential communication
Alicia M Chen
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Robert Hawkins
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Rebecca Saxe
Crossref
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DEBATE: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Evaluating Opinion Dynamics in Role-Playing LLM Agents
Yun-Shiuan Chuang
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Ruixuan Tu
,
Chengtao Dai
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Smit Vasani
,
Binwei Yao
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Michael Henry Tessler
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Sijia Yang
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Dhavan V. Shah
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Robert D. Hawkins
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Junjie Hu
,
Timothy T. Rogers
Submitted to ICLR 2026
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Generation Space Size: Understanding and Calibrating Open-Endedness of LLM Generations
Sunny Yu
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Ahmad Jabbar
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Robert D. Hawkins
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Dan Jurafsky
,
Myra Cheng
Submitted to ICLR 2026
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Everyone
Lexical search and social reasoning jointly explain communication in associative reference games.
Abhilasha A Kumar
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Robert D Hawkins
Journal of experimental psychology. General
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Everyone
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Co-Authors
Abhilasha A Kumar
Abhilasha Ashok Kumar
Adele E. Goldberg
Adele Goldberg
Aditya Palaparthi
Agam Goyal
Ahmad Jabbar
Alane Suhr
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
Alex Guerra
Alex Pentland
Alicia M Chen
Alicia M. Chen
America Romero
Andreas Stuhlmüller
Andrew M. Berdahl
Andrew Palacci
Anthony Vierra
Anya Ji
Ariel Goldstein
Armando Solar-Lezama
Ashley Leung
Benjamin Keller
Bill D. Thompson
Bingyang Wang
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