Best Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Podcasts (2025)

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Can AI Take Common Sense from a Baby? 37:17

1d ago37:17

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Generative AI tools built on large language models are increasingly "intelligent" yet lack a baby's common sense – the ability to non-verbally generalize to novel situations without additional training. What can developmental science contribute to AI? Tech journalist and former CASBS fellow John Markoff chats with 2023-24 CASBS fellow David Moore, …

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Make the Atmosphere Great Again 57:26

1M ago57:26

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Given deeply polarized domestic politics and insufficient international commitment to the Paris Accord, can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avert some of the worst effects of climate change before it's too late? It's an elemental question that warrants despair, yes, but plenty of hope too. Political scientist Leigh Raymond, a 2021-22 CASBS f…

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Anthropology at the Borderlands of Experience 57:45

2M ago57:45

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Two-time CASBS fellow and renowned anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann discusses her past and current work as an anthropologist of the mind, both in religious and psychological contexts, in conversation with 2023-24 CASBS fellow Erica Robles-Anderson. Luhrmann's award-winning work investigates visions, voices, psychosis, the supernatural, and other unusu…

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Demystifying the Disinformation Marketplace 46:43

3M ago46:43

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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 disinformat…

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The Humanity of Connective Labor 51:23

7M ago51:23

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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 51:37

9M ago51:37

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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 42:07

10M ago42:07

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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 1:12:58

11M ago1:12:58

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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 50:44

1y ago50:44

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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 42:23

1y ago42:23

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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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A Social Science of Caregiving 1:04:20

1y ago1:04:20

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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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The Shadow of Cybersecurity Expertise 39:30

1+ y ago39:30

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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 1:05:50

1+ y ago1:05:50

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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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Toward a Society of Shared Recognition 46:53

1+ y ago46:53

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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 49:07

1+ y ago49:07

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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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The Memory Science Disruptor 51:05

1+ y ago51:05

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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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Jonathan Jansen's Power of Craft 53:08

1+ y ago53:08

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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 1:37:00

1+ y ago1:37:00

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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 45:52

2y ago45:52

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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 55:56

2y ago55:56

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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 1:26:34

2y ago1:26:34

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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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A Different Glenn Loury 1:11:22

2y ago1:11:22

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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 1:07:52

2y ago1:07:52

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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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Bob Scott is Trending 53:18

2+ y ago53:18

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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 1:23:32

2+ y ago1:23:32

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Creating A New Political Economy Framework 1:27:10

2+ y ago1:27:10

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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 49:13

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Better AI Through Social Science 1:08:00

3y ago1:08:00

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Don Norman: By Design 38:30

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Understanding Gen Z 1:23:38

3y ago1:23:38

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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|Bluesky|X|YouTube|Lin…

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Psychology of Political Beliefs - David O. Sears 56:30

3y ago56:30

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Dreaming a New Academy - Gloria Ladson-Billings 56:06

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High-tech Modernism 1:30:49

3+ y ago1:30:49

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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 1:21:15

3+ y ago1:21:15

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Violence & Self-domestication - Richard Wrangham 37:33

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The Voices of Americans in Crisis 1:09:17

3+ y ago1:09:17

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The Active Society - Amitai Etzioni 30:24

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How Social Science Advances our Understanding of Pandemics 1:10:53

4y ago1:10:53

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What Does Human Flourishing Look Like? 1:00:45

4y ago1:00:45

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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 1:20:00

4y ago1:20:00

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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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The Death of Nature - Carolyn Merchant 26:13

4y ago26:13

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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 1:14:55

4y ago1:14:55

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What Institutional Courage Looks Like 1:23:53

4y ago1:23:53

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The Digital Dilemma in the Time of COVID 1:24:00

4+ y ago1:24:00

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Reforming Democratic Institutions and Practices 1:14:39

4+ y ago1:14:39

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The Persistence of Racial Inequality 1:07:28

4+ y ago1:07:28

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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|Bluesky|X|YouT…

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Can We Rebuild Social Cohesion in The U.S.? 1:19:02

4+ y ago1:19:02

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What Will Become of Work and Workers? 1:04:58

4+ y ago1:04:58

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Analyzing Social Media Influence - Sandra González-Bailón 37:56

4+ y ago37:56

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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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Higher Ed at the Crossroads 1:17:17

4+ y ago1:17:17

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