Human Centered

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

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 beliefs, behaviors, interactions, and institutions. As a leading incubator of human-centered knowledge, CASBS is a place that is, well...human centered. Producer: Mike Gaetani | Engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel Learn more about CASBS> website: casbs.stanford.edu | X: @CASBSStanford | LinkedIn: CASBS at Stanford |

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Demystifying the Disinformation Marketplace

Human Centered

01/28/25 • 46 min

There never will be enough independent fact checking of online political advertising and their ecosystems. Can we develop methods and tools to demonetize or at least disincentivize the behaviors of disinformation producers as well as the ad firms and content providers in business with them? 2023-24 CASBS fellow Ceren Budak navigates the disinformation marketplace and illuminates pathways for better design of online communities and platforms in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist and former CASBS fellow John Markoff.

CEREN BUDAK: Faculty webpage | Personal website |

Referenced in this episode:

"Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation." Nature 630, 45–53 (2024)

The Prosocial Ranking Challenge (Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence)

"Intermedia agenda setting during the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 18(1), 254-275.

Lawrence Lessig's Pathetic Dot Theory (Wikipedia)
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Read John Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022)

A Social Science of Caregiving

Human Centered

02/26/24 • 64 min

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 that advances understandings and policy discussions. [The episode notes provide links for further exploration.]
Article on CASBS's project on The Social Science of Caregiving

Web page for the project on The Social Science of Caregiving
Related: Human Centered episode #61, "Developing AI Like Raising Kids" (Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang)

Alison Gopnik: CASBS bio | UC Berkeley Bio |
Gopnik article, "Caregiving in Philosophy, Biology & Political Economy" (Dædalus)
Margaret Levi: CASBS bio | CASBS program on Creating a New Moral Political Economy |
Anne-Marie Slaughter: New America bio |
Slaughter articles, "Care is a Relationship" (Dædalus) | "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" (The Atlantic)
Slaughter book, Unfinished Business (Penguin Random House)

Organized Civic Benevolence and Nationhood

Human Centered

08/02/24 • 51 min

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 benevolence and philanthropy operate in the contemporary landscape? This absorbing conversation draws inspiration from the multi-award-winning book "Civic Gifts," much of which Clemens wrote during her CASBS year.
ELISABETH CLEMENS: Univ. of Chicago faculty page | Clemens wins 2023 Gordon J. Laing Award | on Wikipedia |
The book is Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State (Univ. of Chicago Press), winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology section, American Sociological Association; the University of Chicago Press Gordon J. Laing Award; the Outstanding Published Book Award, ASA Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity; and the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).
SANTI FURNARI: CASBS page | City University of London, Bayes School of Business faculty page | on Google Scholar |

Understanding Gen Z

Human Centered

04/07/22 • 83 min

"Gen Z Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age"

CASBS
CASBS project: Understanding the iGeneration
Social Science for a World in Crisis

@CASBSStanford

Frederick Cooper's Illumination of History

Human Centered

07/10/23 • 45 min

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 understandings.

Frederick Cooper, CASBS fellow 1990-91, 1995-96, 2002-03
NYU faculty page
Wikipedia page

Fred Cooper books

Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives (2018)

Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960 (2014)

Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010)

Cooper Books in CASBS's Ralph W. Tyler Collection:
Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History (2005)

Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996)

Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America (1993)

Fred Cooper article referenced in the episode
"What is the Concept of Globalization Good for? An African Historian's Perspective" (2001)

Jean Beaman faculty page

Martin Williams faculty page

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University

Follow the CASBS webcast series,Social Science for a World in Crisis

Deploying Behavioral Science on the Front Lines of Social Protest

Human Centered

08/01/23 • 97 min

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:
Psychology of Intergroup Conflict and Reconciliation Lab (PCIL)

Halperin on Google Scholar
aChord: Social Psychology for Social Change
ROBB WILLER links:

Willer's Stanford faculty page
Willer's personal web page
Polarization and Social Change Lab
Willer on Google Scholar
Article in JPSP, "The Activist's Dilemma" (2020)
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University
CASBS:website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach
Follow the CASBS webcast series,Social Science for a World in Crisis

Bridging Adaptive Algorithms and the Public Good

Human Centered

03/25/24 • 42 min

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 governance, safety, accountability, and advancing the science — including the social science — of human-algorithm behavior.

Nathan Matias: Cornell University faculty page | CASBS bio | Personal website |

Citizens & Technology Lab
Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Select Matias publications
"Humans and Algorithms Work Together — So Study Them Together" Nature (2023)
"Impact Assessment of Human-Algorithm Feedback Loops" Just Tech, SSRC (2022)
"The Tragedy of the Digital Commons" The Atlantic (2015)
"To Hold Tech Accountable, Look to Public Health" Wired (2023)
Link to more Nathan Matias public writing | Matias on Medium | on LinkedIn |
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Read John Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022)

The Voices of Americans in Crisis

Human Centered

09/14/21 • 69 min

American Voices Project crisis reports

The Active Society - Amitai Etzioni

Human Centered

08/31/21 • 30 min

High-tech Modernism

Human Centered

12/01/21 • 90 min

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