Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

Body cameras conceal reality as easily as they reveal & impact perceptions of civilians depicted in footage. Gen AI only complicates things. Writing @globeopinion.bsky.social CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social argues for establishing clearer guidelines on how video can be used as evidence in court

Exactly 50 years ago, Edward Said famously wrote most of his landmark book "Orientalism" as a CASBS fellow.

Consider giving a listen to this recent CASBS podcast episode featuring a panel of four CASBS fellows reflecting on the book's continued impact & influence 🎙️🎧⬇️

So great to see cultural anthropologist & 2016-17 CASBS fellow Noelle Stout at the Center yesterday! Here's Noelle haunting the study - #3 - that she occupied during her fellowship year 👻

Trading on Violence Insider trading on prediction markets is turning into a dog-bites-man type of story.

On Polymarket, transactions are visible but identities are not. This invites not only insider trading but also, as recent events suggest, potential betting directly on & profiting from geopolitical violence, as CASBS fellow @rajivsethi.bsky.social explains

➡️ rajivsethi.substack.com/p/trading-on...

Agreed, Cameron! We look forward to entering Simukai's forthcoming book into our world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 😏

All about the Tyler Collection: casbs.stanford.edu/news/tyler-c...

We can identify key building blocks of org/group/community resilience, but each confronts organizational blockers, explains Everett Harper. In an age of polycrises, we need a synthesis with the capacity to hold multiple models of the future simultaneously, as he sketched in his CASBS fellows seminar

David Card: Behind the Nobel

'A good theory is a Picasso painting. Empirical work is more like fixing a tractor - you just need the stupid thing to run.'

My podcast with the great labor economist and Nobel Prize laureate David Card is out!

Playing from 20:50
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@casbsstanford.bsky.social

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE

1996-97 CASBS fellow David Card chats w/2024-25 fellow @dyligent.bsky.social on the innovative empirical work on the labor market effects of immigration, minimum wages & education that earned Card the Nobel Prize in economics in 2021

🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#davi...

Remembering Kevin Mumford | Department of History | Illinois Imag

We're very sad to learn of the passing of historian and 2021-22 CASBS fellow Kevin Mumford.

The Univ. of Illinois history department published this remembrance of him 🙏

history.illinois.edu/news/2026-02...

So awesome when fellows from different CASBS classes connect & bond on just about anything. But this recent connection between 2021-22 fellow @netakv.bsky.social & 2025-26 fellow @noshir.bsky.social - and the reason underlying it - is very special 🤗

So great to see a new review of the book "Gen Z, Explained" by the National Assoc. of Student Financial Aid Administrators:

➡️ bit.ly/4cNbq69

The @uchicagopress.bsky.social book is the product of a multi-year, multidisciplinary CASBS project. Revisit our book release announcement:

➡️ bit.ly/4rtmb26

It's happened to thousands of people for more than seven decades. Smart people know they'll get a little smarter by spending some time at CASBS.

Bernie knows it.

Here he is at the Center's entrance on Friday with CASBS deputy director Sally Schroeder and CASBS director Lara Tiedens.

There often are hidden/unclear meanings conveyed by myriad forms of expression. In an info-rich environment, how to interpret that info in a world of diverse perspectives? @rajivsethi.bsky.social is delving into these thorny issues in a book, parts of which he discussed in his CASBS fellows seminar

2026 is the 30th anniversary of the publication of "Border Visions" by renowned anthropologist Carlos Vélez-Ibañez

During his 1993-94 CASBS fellowship, Carlos discovered why the Center "as a place for serious and sustained scholarship has no peer" - many fellows share the sentiment

#CREATEDatCASBS

CASBS fellow @rajivsethi.bsky.social emitted exceedingly strong expert vibe (CASBS branding, no doubt) in his Thursday appearance on the PBS Newshour @pbsnews.org discussing prediction markets - a hot topic now but something Rajiv has studied for two decades

WATCH: www.youtube.com/live/2iBPeOZ...

In the age of AI and body cameras, no video speaks for itself - Poynter Video now drives public accountability and viral outrage alike. But bias, editing, delays and AI mean even powerful evidence needs scrutiny.

Video makes us believe we are witnessing events firsthand, but we are not.

NEW collaboration b/w CASBS fellows @aglantz.bsky.social & @sristovska.bsky.social published @poynterinstitute.bsky.social on the challenges of parsing the value of videos you watch.

www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...

Last week we hosted a terrific, wide-ranging conversation between 2005-06 CASBS fellow @jacksonmatthewo.bsky.social & current fellow @rajivsethi.bsky.social for our podcast, Human Centered.

We'll release the episode in the spring. Until then, follow Human Centered on your favorite podcast app 🎙️🎧

🎙️ When we released this podcast episode in 2023, it wasn't about the U.S. But listen now.

"Challenging History Erasures to Expand Possible Futures"

Attempts to distort collective memory thru storytelling hijacks fact, truth & history itself. How to challenge the false narratives?

🎧 bit.ly/46DJvBS

The price in a market referencing a miraculous or impossible event cannot possibly influence the objective probability of the event. But that's not the case for markets referencing, for example, elections, writes CASBS fellow @rajivsethi.bsky.social in this crisp Substack post

Is it possible to reduce water use without reducing production & income in smallholder agriculture communities? Focusing on causally interpretable field evidence from South Asia, Ram Fishman outlined four prevailing approaches & key considerations for moving forward during his CASBS fellows seminar

The microsociology & contingency of int'l diplomacy

What are the behavioral mechanisms of communications in diplomacy? How do factors exogenous to an interaction affect & inform the meaning of behavior? Intriguing questions motivate 2 book projects Seanon Wong discussed in his CASBS fellows seminar

Exactly 50 years ago, Edward Said famously wrote most of his landmark book "Orientalism" as a CASBS fellow.

Consider giving a listen to this recent CASBS podcast episode featuring a panel of four CASBS fellows reflecting on the book's continued impact & influence 🎙️🎧⬇️

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bsky.app/profile/casb...

So great to welcome @glennloury.skystack.xyz back to the hill for lunch on Thursday. Glenn was in town to deliver the prestigious Arrow Lecture on the Stanford campus.

Here's Glenn revisiting the study he occupied during his 2015-16 CASBS fellowship. He launched his memoir project that year...

More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation Forests regulate global and local climates in ways that impact human well-being. In this Review, we discuss the scale-dependent mechanisms through which forests regulate climate, highlighting their co...

Fmr CASBS fellow & current board member Rob Jackson among coauthors of NEW ARTICLE in @science.org synthesizing findings on forests’ effects on temperature & hydrology depending on environmental context, w/ implications for forest mgmt & climate adaptation planning

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A copy of the NEW BOOK by @ninabandelj.bsky.social, "Overinvested,"work that Nina advanced forward during her 2019-20 CASBS fellowship, has entered into the Center's world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚

About this @princetonupress.bsky.social book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

How the Trump Administration Rolled Back Efforts to Fight Human Trafficking - Type Investigations

🔊 Must-read reporting

CASBS practitioner fellow @aglantz.bsky.social & coauthors describe the govt’s retreat in curbing human trafficking, possibly negating decades of progress in efforts to prevent sexual slavery, forced labor & child sexual exploitation

www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2026/02...

To Tell the Truth? Self-Censorship and Public Discourse The 2025-26 Arrow Lecture features economist Glenn C. Loury discussing issues of self-censorship and public discourse.

Wednesday's 5pm Arrow Lecture, hosted by Stanford's Center for Ethics in Society, features 2015-16 CASBS fellow @glennloury.skystack.xyz

Talk overview & RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/to-tell-th...

Rigorous design & evaluation of LLMs' provision of election info is essential.

NEW PAPER by two-time fellow @robbwiller.bsky.social & collaborators, "A nonpartisan source grounded AI voter guide is perceived as trustworthy and affects voting intentions"

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar to Lead CASBS

The former California Supreme Court justice and current president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace returns July 1 as CASBS director. Cuéllar previously chaired the CASBS board of directors from 2016-2021.

Full announcement: bit.ly/49orxoT