Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

Can AI dialogues improve psychological well-being? CASBS faculty fellow @robbwiller.bsky.social among the coauthors of a new paper that tests whether brief, structured dialogues grounded in psych research can reliably help

Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

See Robb's explanatory thread 👇

YouTube video by CASBS CASBS fellowship: Catherine Ramírez

We cracked the code. How to grow 10 years intellectually in one biological year

Be a CASBS fellow. Catherine Ramírez explains

APPLY for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS fellowship. DEADLINE Oct 31

Info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZq...

Oct 24 | 1:45pm | Stanford campus

CASBS fellow Deepa Fernandes delivers the keynote address at the day-long Provostial Fellows Symposium on "Power, Voice, and Place: Perspectives on Race Across Disciplines"

Full schedule & registration link: facultydevelopment.stanford.edu/provostial-f...

Claus Offe in Memoriam Claus Offe served as professor of political sociology at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin until 2015. He began his academic career in the intellectual environment of the Frankfurt School as a...

We're sad to learn about the passing of 1987-88 CASBS fellow Clause Offe, "among the most prominent theorists in modern social science and one of the most cited authors in political sociology"

Institute for Human Sciences remembrance: www.iwm.at/news/claus-o...

A copy of the NEW BOOK by Maisha Winn, "Futuring Black Lives," developed substantially while Maisha was in residence as a 2022-23 CASBS fellow, has entered into the Center's renowned Ralph W Tyler Collection 📚

About this Vanderbilt Univ. Press book: www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650791...

Remembering David C. Berliner: Scholar, gadfly, mentor and defender of public education | ASU News Two bored 18-year-olds walk into a bar.That is, in fact, almost how the career trajectory of one of the most influential and admired education scholars in America began.Not long after he turned 18, Da...

We're sad to learn of the passing of 1987-88 CASBS fellow David Berliner, a renowned educational psychologist & public intellectual who influenced generations of scholars

ASU obit: news.asu.edu/20251002-art...

Berliner's CASBS work: casbs.stanford.edu/people/david...

Challenges. Battles. A quest to solve mysteries. Finding community. Uncertain futures. Joys. Superpowers. A family's journey

Time is of the essence for Deepa Fernandes to write the trade book that’s been percolating. She poignantly explained why in our kickoff fellows seminar of the fellowship year

Julian Wolpert, a pioneer of urban planning and 'permanent giant in geography,' dies at 92 Wolpert championed the use of quantitative approaches to understand the social and behavioral dimensions of geography.

Sad to learn of the passing of 1973-74 CASBS fellow Julian Wolpert, renowned for pioneering the use of quantitative approaches to understanding social & behavioral dimensions of geography

Princeton obit: www.princeton.edu/news/2025/10...

Wolpert's work at CASBS: casbs.stanford.edu/people/julia...

Humanities and Computational Analysis While we have entered the age of generative AI, it is worth having a look at how computers can help literature scholars and intellectual historians to explain the life of concepts, aesthetics and genr...

NEW in CASBS's partnership w/ @laviedesidees.bsky.social

Literary criticism & Big Data - video interview w/2024-25 CASBS fellow Mark Algee-Hewitt on how machines help literature scholars & intellectual historians explain the life of concepts, aesthetics & genres

booksandideas.net/Humanities-a...

Advancing Supervisor Support for Flexibility through Training In this seminar, Prof. Ellen Kossek will share the results from a randomized employer field experiment on training supervisors around work-life balance.

Oct 6 | 12pm PT | Online

CASBS fellow @ellenernstkossek.bsky.social presenting @harvardkennedy.bsky.social on how employers need to consider how job characteristics influence the differential benefits of work-life interventions

More info & RSVP: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/advan...

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE

Colin Camerer: Econ's Neurovisionary

@sweiwang.bsky.social chats w/@cfcamerer.bsky.social on his work on the neuroeconomics of habit formation, building & scaling behavioral models, & neuroscience as a wide-open field for economists

🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#coli...

Opinion | How Academic Publishing Exploits Public Science The National Institutes of Health is right to resist the profiteering private companies.

We don’t need to blow up the system, but we do need to reclaim it, as fmr CASBS fellow Bob Kaplan explains in this sharp piece @chronicle.com

www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

NEW PUB coauthored by CASBS fellow @profpjones.bsky.social 👇

#InternationalPodcastDay

Revisit our superb episode on "Deploying Behavioral Science on the Front Lines of Social Protest"

CASBS fellows @eranhalperin75.bsky.social (2022-23) & @robbwiller.bsky.social (2012-13, 2020-21) compare cross-national research findings

➡️ casbs.stanford.edu/podcast-2023...

What is CASBS fellowship?

Watch former fellows talk about it in their own words in a suite of short videos: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

Then APPLY for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS residential fellowship by Oct 31, 2025

Info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

New Partnership w/Linköping University

The Swedish university will support one fellow per year at CASBS starting w/the 2026-27 academic year. The agreement deepens the Center's global outreach efforts facilitating an annual influx of international talent.

MORE: casbs.stanford.edu/news/new-fel...

Happy and proud to be part of this wonderful group of scholars. Already learning a lot, and looking forward to an intense academic year!

YouTube video by Moving Europe Podcast Can We End Global Poverty? 🌍💰 - with Former Nelson Mandela Advisor Ian Goldin

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You know it's gonna be good when it's an all-CASBS affair - Mike Albertus (CASBS fellow, 2019-20) in conversation with William Howell (2009-10) & Terry Moe (1992-93)... 💯

2025 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Explorations in Cognition," a volume co-edited by the legendary Don Norman.

A 1973-74 CASBS fellow, Norman came to the right place. Were it not for the Center, dozens if not hundreds of books probably would not have been completed

#CREATEDatCASBS

Fragile Foundations: Hidden Risks of Generative AI Foundation models are the backbone of generative AI and thus central to applications such as ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot. However, their use comes with risks: from randomly compiled training data and ...

Read "Fragile Foundations: Hidden Risks of Generative AI," a NEW REPORT @bertelsmannst.bsky.social by 2024-25 CASBS fellow Anne Washington. Written at CASBS

Anne highlights the dangers foundation models pose to vulnerable groups & advances alternatives

➡️ www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/de/publikati...

Sad to learn of the passing of 1993-94 CASBS fellow Peter Whybrow, known for research on the pathophysiology & clinical treatment of mood disorder, esp bipolar disorder. A copy of his book "A Mood Apart" resides in the Center's Ralph Tyler Collection

@wikipedia.org: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_C...

Institutions are being outflanked by bad-faith actors who are weak on facts but employ superior communication tactics. Nonpartisan analysts must rethink tactics as well as their theory of influence, argues fmr CASBS fellow @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social in this coauthored essay @carnegieendowment.org

The 2025-26 CASBS class.

Resent them, if you must, for their unbridled beauty.

But love them, you must, for their spectacular talent.

Fellows: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...

Visiting scholars: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...

Fascinating new findings coauthored by 2024-25 CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social in @bjsociology.bsky.social 👇

Apply for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS residential fellowship. Deadline: Oct 31, 2025

Much more info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

Watch former fellows talk about it in their own words in a suite of 17 short, awesome videos: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

Research explores the political preferences of small business owners A first-of-its-kind paper finds that small business owners represent a distinct, Republican-leaning constituency, helping to explain some consistent political trends.

Fmr CASBS fellows Neil Malhotra (2022-23) & Yotam Margalit (2020-21) collaborate on a new research paper in @bjpols.bsky.social revealing the conservative inclination predominating among U.S. small business owners

Coverage: news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

YouTube video by NUS Business School The Gambler’s Fallacy: The Hidden Bias Behind Your Decisions

Randomness doesn't care about the past

VIDEO: Fmr CASBS fellow Ivan Png & collaborator Wang Song explain the Gambler's Fallacy bias through an application to the decision making of taxi drivers, the subject of a coauthored paper that Ivan discussed at CASBS in 2024

www.youtube.com/watch?v=opQi...

Yes, that Srinivas. It's an incredible story you should know 👇

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CASBS fellows often choose - or intend to choose - their offices (studies) for specific reasons, or get inspired once they see lists of their studies' occupants (ghosts) throughout CASBS history

Though 1969-70 fellow M.N. Srinivas occupied a wing now reserved for visitors, Mary Shenk is so close...