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 some 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 chall ...
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Are jobs requiring high levels of human interaction worth preserving in the age of automation? Can we design machines to achieve something profound – the mutual recognition that occurs when human beings truly "see" each other? CASBS faculty fellow Mitchell Stevens explores these questions with Allison Pugh, author of the 2024 book The Last Human Jo…
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Organized Civic Benevolence and Nationhood
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Santi Furnari (CASBS fellow, 2023-24) engages renowned political sociologist & 2015-16 fellow Elisabeth Clemens on the role of private civic volunteer organizations in co-constructing national identity and state capacity as well as serving as tools of governance, solidarity, and inclusion for much of American history. In what form does civic benevo…
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Exposing Sources and Impacts of Election Disinformation Campaigns
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Legendary tech journalist John Markoff (CASBS fellow, 2017-18) chats with 2023-24 CASBS fellow Young Mie Kim on her groundbreaking efforts to identify how shadowy groups use algorithms and targeted disinformation campaigns during presidential election cycles; measure their real-world distorting effects on voter mobilization or suppression; and illu…
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The Gold Standard of Economic Historians
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Stefan Link, a 2023-24 CASBS fellow, chats with Barry Eichengreen, a 1996-97 CASBS fellow and world renowned for his expertise at the nexus of international economics and economic history. They discuss some of Eichengreen's most prominent works — including "The European Economy Since 1945," which emerged from his CASBS experience, and "Golden Fette…
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A Scholar's Commitment to Workers' Economic Justice
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Labor historian & 2023-24 CASBS fellow Gabriel Winant in conversation with 2018-19 CASBS fellow Ruth Milkman, among the nation's most renowned sociologists of labor. In addition to interrogating divisions within and segmentation across labor markets in recent decades, Milkman also has remained attuned to the complexity of the overall working class …
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Bridging Adaptive Algorithms and the Public Good
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Pulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist John Markoff chats with 2022-23 CASBS fellow Nathan Matias about often-overlooked public interest questions and concerns regarding the deployment of tech platform algorithms and AI models. Specifically, Matias is a player in filling the two-way knowledge gaps between civil society and tech firms with an eye on…
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Recorded before a live audience, Margaret Levi, Alison Gopnik, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a CASBS project, "The Social Science of Caregiving," which is reimagining the philosophical, psychological, biological, political, & economic foundations of care and caregiving. The goal is a coherent empirical and theoretical account or synthesis of care …
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Pulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist & 2017-18 CASBS fellow John Markoff chats with 2022-23 CASBS fellow Rebecca Slayton on how the field of computing expertise evolved, eventually giving rise to the niche of professionals who protect systems from cyber-attacks. Slayton's forthcoming book explores the governance & risk implications emerging from …
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Challenging History Erasures to Expand Possible Futures
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Two-time CASBS fellow Fred Turner engages CASBS board of directors chair Abby Smith Rumsey before a live audience to discuss her new book "Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History." When the erasure or distortion of collective memory through storytelling hijacks fact, truth, and history itself, what kind of information infrastructures can effe…
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Renowned sociologist Michèle Lamont (CASBS fellow, 2002-03) discusses her new book, Seeing Others, with former CASBS director Woody Powell. The book assembles decades of Lamont’s scholarship, engaging some of contemporary society’s most elemental challenges and advancing key building blocks toward a shared human experience marked by greater inclusi…
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Toward Cross-disciplinary Consensus About Our (Mis)Information Environment
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Fully understanding and regulating our complex information ecosystems will require creating new cultures and modes of collaborating, new organizational frameworks and, yes, working with generative AI models in service of aggregating actionable scientific knowledge. Angela Aristidou (CASBS fellow, 2022-23) navigates the crucial questions and challen…
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Dan Simon, a 2022-23 CASBS fellow and USC law professor, joins in conversation with Elizabeth Loftus, a 1978-79 CASBS fellow and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine. Loftus is known in the public sphere through her decades-long study of memory – specifically, its malleability and fallibility – as well as her application of findings as an expert wi…
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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 intellect…
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Deploying Behavioral Science on the Front Lines of Social Protest
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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…
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Frederick Cooper's Illumination of History
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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 se…
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Developing AI Like Raising Kids - Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang
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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-societie…
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New Visions for Effective Worker Influence
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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 Ar…
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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?" …
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Interdependence & Climate Change - Robert Keohane
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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…
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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 Beh…
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Toward Better Evidence-Based Policymaking
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Causal Inference for Social Impact Lab EGAP Jake Bowers Carrie S. Cihak Dan Hopkins Ruth Levine Piyush Tantia CASBS Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-produ…
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Creating A New Political Economy Framework
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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 …
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Movements & Contentious Politics - Sid Tarrow
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Sid Tarrow "Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development" - Cambridge University Press Ed Walker CASBS @CasbsStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer:…
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Jacob Ward Kristian Hammond Daniel Ho Jennifer Logg CASBS @CASBSStanford Social Science for a World in Crisis Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: J…
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Don Norman Piyush Tantia's Ideas42 CASBS @CasbsStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |…
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"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|Twitter|YouTube|Linke…
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Psychology of Political Beliefs - David O. Sears
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David Sears Vivian Zayas UCLA Political Psychology Lab CASBS @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |…
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Dreaming a New Academy - Gloria Ladson-Billings
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Gloria Ladson Billings Nuraan Davids CASBS CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |…
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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…
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Minds Memes & Windsurfing - Daniel Dennett
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Allison Stanger Daniel Dennett From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds CASBS @casbsstanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe …
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Violence & Self-domestication - Richard Wrangham
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James Holland Jones Richard Wrangham Kimbale Chimpanzee Park CASBS Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |…
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American Voices Project crisis reports Our Towns James Fallows Corey Fields David Grusky Hazel Markus CASBS CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer &…
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Jerry Davis Amitai Etzioni Civil Dialogues CASBS Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |…
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How Social Science Advances our Understanding of Pandemics
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Panelists Peter Loewen Adrian Raftery Prerna Singh Robb Willer Alexis Madrigal Suggested Readings, Event Info and more Visit CASBS online CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Produ…
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What Does Human Flourishing Look Like?
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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…
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An Earth-friendly Political Economy
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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 @CASBSStanfo…
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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 (CAS…
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America's Black-White Divide: Looking Back, Looking Around, Looking Forward
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Lawrence D. Bobo Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Claude Steele Margaret Levi Social Science for a World in Crisis Series CASBS @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | En…
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What Institutional Courage Looks Like
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Moderator Estelle Freedman Panelists Jennifer Freyd Jennifer Gómez Carolyn Warner ---- Social Science for a World in Crisis Event Page with Info CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centere…
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The Digital Dilemma in the Time of COVID
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Show page with suggested readings John Markoff Nilam Ram Byron Reeves Abby Smith Rumsey Maryanne Wolf The Human Screenome Project Social Science for a World in Crisis Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Ce…
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Reforming Democratic Institutions and Practices
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Show page with Suggested Readings Luis Fraga James Fishkin Martin Gilens Jane Mansbridge @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Mon…
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The Persistence of Racial Inequality
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CASBS promo flyer for this discussion "Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? Culture, Causation, and Responsibility" Glenn's paper discussed by the panel Glenn C. Loury Joshua Cohen Francis Fukuyama Alondra Nelson CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTub…
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Can We Rebuild Social Cohesion in The U.S.?
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CASBS Episode Page Panelists: Danielle Allen Shaylyn Romney Garrett Eric Klinenberg Robert Putnam Moderator: David Brooks @CASBSStanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani …
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What Will Become of Work and Workers?
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Moderator: Margaret Levi Panelists: Tara Behrend Louis Hyman John Irons Phyllis Moen Social Science for a World in Crisis Series @CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mik…
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Analyzing Social Media Influence - Sandra González-Bailón
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Sandra González-Bailón A great thread on her recent paper “Exposure to News Grows Less Fragmented with an Increase in Mobile Access” “Bots are Less Central than Verified Accounts during Contentious Political Events” Her book Decoding the Social World Facebook 2020 Election Research portal CASBS CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Beha…
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Social Science for a World in Crisis Panelists Nina Bandelj Jonathan David Jansen Caitlin Zaloom Moderator Debra Satz Twitter @CASBSSTANFORD Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaet…
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Panelists: Shona Brown Colin Mayer Margaret O’Mara Moderator: Paul Brest Social Science for a World in Crisis CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer…
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Metrics & Misconduct in Scholarly Publishing - Mario Biagioli
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Mario Biagioli's UCLA Profile Mario's article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, "Fraud by Numbers: Metrics and the New Academic Midconduct" Mario’s book “Gaming The Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research” 2019-20 CASBS fellow Brian Arthur’s paper “All Systems Will Be Gamed: Exploitative Behavior in Economic and Social Systems” …
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Race and the Movement for Justice in America
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Race and the Movement for Justice in America Video of the conversation CASBS on Twitter Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Explore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Human Centered Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |…
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Polarization and Contentious Politics in the Age of Covid
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Video of this conversation Social Science for a World in Crisis CASBS director Margaret Levi, co-editor of the Annual Review of Political Science, recently curated discussions with Christian Davenport and Rachel Kleinfeld that explore findings in articles they published in the Review. The Long-Term Consequences of Street Clashes "Privilege Violence…
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