Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

In March, we announced the 2025-26 CASBS class of fellows

Starting next Monday, August 4, we introduce individual fellows, one per day, every day, right here on Bluesky

It's our highly anticipated annual rollout. We know you love it, even though you're shy about telling us you do 😏

Serendipity struck in Alaska on Friday when an unnamed CASBS staff member found himself sitting next to brilliant scholar & former CASBS fellow Marta Tienda (1990-91) during a wildlife excursion as part of a fantastic Alaskan cruise!

Marta promised to start actually reading CASBS newsletters... 😐

CASBS as Spatial Experience

What fellows feel, Sapna Marfatia, Stanford's director of architecture, explains: the distinction the Center's buildings & grounds enjoyed at their creation & continue to enjoy today, more than seven decades later.

This is special. Interview & photos: bit.ly/4eGMPPt

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE

"Grand Master of the Sociology of Immigration & Assimilation"

2023-24 CASBS fellow René D. Flores engages legendary scholar Alejandro Portes (1980-81 fellow) on his intellectual journey, including pioneering work on causes & consequences of immigration

🎧 bit.ly/3ICEJLP

The Irreducible Link About: Allison Pugh, The Last Human Job. The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World, Princeton

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

A look at "The Last Human Job," a book partly written at CASBS by 2016-17 fellow @allisonpugh.bsky.social

The book steps back from discourses portraying AI as a necessary solution to problems

laviedesidees.fr/The-Irreduci...

Congratulations to CASBS fellows elected as 2025 International Fellows of The British Academy 🙌

@britishacademy.bsky.social announcement: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

2025 is the 20th anniversary of the publication of "A World of Regions" by Peter Katzenstein

A two-time fellow (1981-82, 2004-05), Katzenstein finished the book during his 2nd CASBS tour aided by the "unmitigated intellectual pleasure" that most fellows feel here on the hill...

#CREATEDatCASBS

YouTube video by CASBS Episode 11: "The Digital Dilemma in the Time of COVID"

More Nilam:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pe5...

Nice discussion with Nilam Ram. The genesis of The Human Screenome Project dates back to Nilam's 2013-14 CASBS fellowship & hiss interactions at CASBS with Byron Reeves, who serendipitously occupied the study next to Nilam that year 😁

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Master class

In April, @dacemoglumit.bsky.social delivered the 2025 Sage-CASBS Award Lecture at CASBS

The Nobel laureate offered a framework elucidating how institutional legacies & contemporary institutional choices impact technology policy & prosperity

Video, photos, & article: bit.ly/44AoJCs

The shelves below display cover images of the most recent books entered into our Ralph W. Tyler Collection – works conceived, initiated, completed, or otherwise undertaken by CASBS fellows during their residence & which acknowledge CASBS

Learn more about them: casbs.stanford.edu/about/recent...

Using Large Language Models in Behavioral Science Interventions: Promise & Risk - Cameron A. Hecht, Desmond C. Ong, Margarett Clapper, Michaela Jones, Dorottya Demszky, Diyi Yang, Johannes C. Eichstae... Many behavioral science-based interventions, such as nudges and so-called psychologically wise interventions, seek to improve people’s lives by using words to s...

Fmr CASBS fellows David Yeager & Chris Bryan among the coauthors of this OPEN ACCESS article on "Using Large Language Models in Behavioral Science Interventions: Promise & Risk" @sagepub.com + @bescipol.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Patricio Fernandez, 2022-23 CASBS fellow, in front of CASBS study #12

Knowing he'd be photographed by the study he occupied during his 2022-23 CASBS fellowship year, philosopher Patricio Fernandez wore his best shirt during his recent return to the Center and, well, we must agree it's quite something...

John H. Flavell, influential scholar of developmental psychology, has died Remembered for his humility and generosity, Flavell was a giant in his field.

John Flavell, a renowned child psychologist and 1969-70 CASBS fellow who, among many other things, coined the term "metacognition," has passed away.

Stanford's remembrance: news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

bsky.app/profile/casb...

Great to hear @kqedforum.bsky.social rebroadcast this awesome discussion on The Social Science of Caregiving, a CASBS-based project led by fmr CASBS fellow & current research affiliate @alisongopnik.bsky.social

Check out our project's curation of an issue of Dædalus about caregiving in the thread

Does higher ed liberalize sentiments about immigrants? Using survey data across 32 countries, CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social & coauthors reveal substantial variation in the assoc b/w field of study & anti-immigrant prejudice

👉 @bjsociology.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Lara Tiedens appointed as CASBS interim director

The current CASBS board member and former CASBS fellow, Scripps College president, and senior associate dean at Stanford's Graduate School of Business started a one-year term on June 16.

Announcement: casbs.stanford.edu/news/lara-ti...

NEW RELEASE

@alisongopnik.bsky.social, leader of CASBS's Social Science of Caregiving project, edits the new issue of Dædalus w/ @mlevi.bsky.social & Zachary Ugolnik

16 essays rethink the philosophical, psychological, biological, political & economic foundations of care

OPEN ACCESS bit.ly/3Qm49ha

Burning Questions: A Collection of Perspectives on Climate Action - By Evan Nesterak - Behavioral Scientist The barriers to solving climate change seem to be getting higher, and the need for breakthroughs feels more urgent than ever. What are the most pressing ideas on the minds of social and behavioral sci...

Snapshots of social scientific thinking about climate change. Thanks to the organizers of the @casbsstanford.bsky.social workshop on Burnout, Backlash, and Backsliding, and to editor Evan Nesterak @behscientist.bsky.social for providing a forum.

behavioralscientist.org/burning-ques...

BREAKING

CASBS insiders know to bet smart money* on historians. Sure enough, this year's winner for most books checked-out** is historian Seung-joon Lee. Congrats SJ, free CASBS lunch in perpetuity for you 👊

*We don't endorse gambling as far as you know
**Actually reading the books is not required

CASBS as Spatial Experience

What fellows feel, Sapna Marfatia, Stanford's director of architecture, explains: the distinction the Center's buildings & grounds enjoyed at their creation & continue to enjoy today, more than seven decades later.

This is special. Interview & photos: bit.ly/4eGMPPt

The shelves below display cover images of the most recent books entered into our Ralph W. Tyler Collection – works conceived, initiated, completed, or otherwise undertaken by CASBS fellows during their residence & which acknowledge CASBS

Learn more about them: casbs.stanford.edu/about/recent...

June 30, 2025. Last lunch of the 2024-25 CASBS fellowship year with remaining fellows

How quickly an academic year slips into the rear view mirror⏱️

Farewell to the 2024-25 class!! 👋 😘 👊

NEW PUB @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, coauthored by CASBS fellow @yhmsee.bsky.social, examines cross-cultural differences in openness to affective versus cognitive persuasion in a meta-analysis finding that affective appeals are more persuasive than cognitive appeals in collectivistic societies

Reposted from @linkedin.com because it's so awesome. Thank you, Ali Crum, for being a member of the 2024-25 class and thoroughly immersing yourself in the CASBS fellowship experience 🤗 🫂

Always a pleasure to reunite with two-time CASBS fellow (2008-09, 2015-16) Rose McDermott, who visited recently & is seen here in front of the study she occupied - #46 - during her first fellowship 😏

The invisible infrastructure of inclusive economic growth | Brookings This report defines five regional capabilities that comprise the “invisible civic infrastructure” that enables racially inclusive economic growth.

CASBS board member @el-xav.bsky.social & @brookings.edu coauthors define five regional capabilities that comprise the “invisible civic infrastructure” that enables racially inclusive economic growth

👉 www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

2025 is the 30th anniversary of the publication of "The Secret History of Gender" by Steve J. Stern

Stern drafted the book as a 1990-91 CASBS fellow. His book, like so many others by fellows past, present & future, likely would not happen without the CASBS community and environment

#CREATEDatCASBS