Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

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Conversations about projects and research undertaken by scholars & affiliates of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University; interviews with renowned fellows from CASBS history; and audio versions of occasional CASBS live events. CASBS is a scholarly community like no other for collaborative, cross-disciplinary, generative research. It brings together deep thinkers to address wicked problems and significant societal challenges. It empowers them to challenge boundaries and assumptions in order to advance our understanding of the full range of human b...

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Jonathan Jansen's Power of Craft 28.08.2023 53:08

While you're listening to this episode, 2016-17 CASBS fellow Jonathan Jansen likely will write another few thousand words. As a scholar of education & leader of education institutions, Jansen is South Africa's most towering figure. To call him prolific is a gross understatement. He writes a steady stream of books & more books. As a public intellectual he writes a separate steady stream of columns...

Deploying Behavioral Science on the Front Lines of Social Protest 01.08.2023 1:37:00

What are the most effective collective actions that social protest movements can or should undertake in the context of deep societal conflict and polarization? CASBS fellows Eran Halperin (2022-23) & Robb Willer (2012-13, 2020-21) compare their cross-national research findings and explore Halperin's real-time applied work with the dramatic, ongoing protests in Israel. ERAN HALPERIN links: Psycholo...

Frederick Cooper's Illumination of History 10.07.2023 45:52

Drawing upon a career of scholarship extending from studies of labor, citizenship, and the state in Africa to explorations of global empire, colonialism, and globalization, three-time CASBS fellow Frederick Cooper – in conversation with 2022-23 fellows Jean Beaman and Martin Williams – gives a master class on how critical and relational thinking serve historical inquiries that advance our understa...

Developing AI Like Raising Kids - Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang 01.06.2023 55:56

This episode is produced in association with the CASBS project "The Social Science of Caregiving," and draws further inspiration from the CASBS project "Imagining Adaptive Societies." Learn more about both: https://casbs.stanford.edu/programs/projects/social-science-caregiving https://casbs.stanford.edu/programs/projects/imagining-adaptive-societies CASBS program director Zachary Ugolnik served a...

New Visions for Effective Worker Influence 22.05.2023 1:26:34

This is a podcast version of a live CASBS webcast event. View video of the event here . The event was produced in association with CASBS's program on Creating a New Moral Political Economy. Learn about the program here . CASBS's moral political economy program guest-curated the Winter 2023 issue of Dædalus, a publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The entire issue is open access...

A Different Glenn Loury 27.04.2023 1:11:22

Glenn Loury on Google Scholar Coate & Loury (1993), "Will Affirmative-Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?" Loury, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (The Du Bois Lectures) The Tanner Lectures at Stanford (2007) Lecture 1 | Lecture 2 Loury (2008), Race, Incarceration, and American Values Loury (2019), "Why Does Racial Inequality Persist?" Somanathan and Allen, eds. (2020) Difference witho...

Interdependence & Climate Change - Robert Keohane 27.03.2023 1:07:52

Robert Keohane bios: CASBS | Princeton | Wikipedia Comparative Politics of Climate Change Policy workshops at CASBS Complex interdependence After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy 2016 Balzan Prize | prize speech Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research Johan Skytte Prize Keohane & Ostrom, Local Commons and Global Interdependence CASBS:...

Bob Scott is Trending 06.12.2022 53:18

Emerging Trends in The Social and Behavioral Sciences Bob’s Introduction to the project About the Robert A. Scott Lectureship Fund The classic mud volleyball photo (click then scroll to the bottom of the article) Human Centered episode featuring Richard Wrangham CASBS in the History of Behavioral Economics CASBS Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)  at Stanford Un...

Toward Better Evidence-Based Policymaking 02.12.2022 1:23:32

Creating A New Political Economy Framework 01.09.2022 1:27:10

Moderator Debra Satz Panelists Elizabeth Anderson University of Michigan Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton Princeton Amy Kapczynski Yale Law CASBS @CasbsStanford Creating a New Moral Political Economy program at CASBS Social Science for a World in Crisis Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)  at Stanford University Explore CASBS:...

Movements & Contentious Politics - Sid Tarrow 26.07.2022 49:13

Better AI Through Social Science 05.07.2022 1:08:00

Don Norman: By Design 06.06.2022 38:30

Understanding Gen Z 07.04.2022 1:23:38

" Gen Z Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age " Roberta Katz Sarah Ogilvie Jane Shaw Linda Woodhead Kat Tenbarge CASBS CASBS project: Understanding the iGeneration Social Science for a World in Crisis @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)  at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website | Bluesky | X | YouTube  | LinkedIn | podcast  |...

Psychology of Political Beliefs - David O. Sears 28.02.2022 56:30

Dreaming a New Academy - Gloria Ladson-Billings 15.12.2021 56:06

High-tech Modernism 01.12.2021 1:30:49

dana boyd Henry Farrell Marion Fourcade William Janeway Charlton McIlwain Zeynep Tufekci Suggested Reading "The Moral Economy of High Tech Modernism" "Making Space for Black Software" "Learning Like a State: Statecraft in the Digital Age" "Isomorphism through algorithms: Institutional dependencies in the case of Facebook" "The Ecology of Innovation" CASBS @CasbsStanford Social Science for a World...

Minds Memes & Windsurfing - Daniel Dennett 09.11.2021 1:21:15

Violence & Self-domestication - Richard Wrangham 28.09.2021 37:33

The Voices of Americans in Crisis 14.09.2021 1:09:17

The Active Society - Amitai Etzioni 31.08.2021 30:24

How Social Science Advances our Understanding of Pandemics 15.07.2021 1:10:53

What Does Human Flourishing Look Like? 25.06.2021 1:00:45

Jenna Bednar Hilary Cottam James Manyika Gillian Tett Suggested Readings “Governance for Human Flourishing” “The Social Contract in the 21st Century” “Welfare 5.0: Why We Need a Social Revolution and How to Make it Happen” Vist CASBS online @casbsstanford on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)  at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website | Bluesky | X |...

An Earth-friendly Political Economy 28.05.2021 1:20:00

Creating a New Moral Political Economy Arun Majumdar Eric Beinhocker Genevieve Bell Kim Stanley Robinson Suggested Readings “I am a carbon abolitionist” “Making the Fed’s Money Printer Go Brrrr for the Planet” “The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI” “Touching the future: Stories of systems, serendipity and grace” CASBS @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sci...

The Death of Nature - Carolyn Merchant 29.04.2021 26:13

Carolyn Merchant Paula Findlen " Science Turned Upside Down: Carolyn Merchant’s Vision of Nature, 40 Years Later " " The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution " " The Anthropocene and The Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability " CASBS @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)  at Stanford University Explor...