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Human Centered

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

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Frequency: 1 episode/29d. Total Eps: 81

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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Organized Civic Benevolence and Nationhood

Episode 75

vendredi 2 août 2024 • Duration 51:37

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 |

Exposing Sources and Impacts of Election Disinformation Campaigns

Episode 74

lundi 8 juillet 2024 • Duration 42:07

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 illuminate our understanding of resulting political inequalities and their implications for American democracy.

YOUNG MIE KIM: CASBS bio | Univ. of Wisconsin faculty page | "The Disinformation Detective" (On Wisconsin magazine) |

Kim leads Project DATA (Digital Ad Tracking & Analysis) at UW. | Project DATA on X |

Kim is lead author of the article "The Stealth Media? Groups and Targets Behind Divisive Issue Campaigns on Facebook," Political Communication, v35 n4 (2018). The article won the Kaid-Sanders Award for the Best Political Communication Article of the Year by the International Communication Association.

Coverage of findings: The New York Times here and here | Wired |

Kim's testimony delivered to the Federal Election Commission |

Kim is a founding member of the International Panel on the Information Environment. Coverage of IPIE in The New York Times |

Kim among the authors of "The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment," Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, v121 n2 (2024) |

Kim a coauthor of several articles appearing in a special issue of Science on Social Media and Elections (2023) |

At the beginning of the episode, Kim discusses the influence of Phil Converse. Converse was a CASBS fellow in 1979-80 and later served as CASBS director (1989-94). Learn more about Converse's work.

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Read John Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022)

The Memory Science Disruptor

Episode 65

lundi 11 septembre 2023 • Duration 51:05

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 witness or consultant in hundreds of legal cases. Loftus's book "Eyewitness Testimony," completed at the Center, charted the course of her career that followed and serves as this episode's launching point.

ELIZABETH LOFTUS

UC Irvine faculty page
Wikipedia page
TED Talk (2013), "How reliable is your memory?"
Nobel Prize Summit (2023), "The misinformation effect"
The New Yorker (2021), "How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory"

DAN SIMON

USC Gould School of Law faculty page
CASBS bio
"In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process" (Harvard Univ. Press, 2012)

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Jonathan Jansen's Power of Craft

Episode 64

lundi 28 août 2023 • Duration 53:08

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 intellectual he writes a separate steady stream of columns & essays. And he's written a family memoir too. We bring 2022-23 CASBS fellow Zimitri Erasmus, a social anthropologist who is working on a book on writing praxis, in conversation with Jansen to unlock some secrets & insights into his most powerful & liberating weapon for engaging the world – writing.

JONATHAN JANSEN
on Google Scholar
Jansen website

Mentioned in the episode
Corrupted: A Study of Chronic Dysfunction in South African Universities (2023)
Song for Sarah: Lessons from my Mother (2017)

Jansen and CASBS
"Loving and Blacking" (symposium, 2017)
"Higher Ed at the Crossroads" (webcast, 2020)

Deploying Behavioral Science on the Front Lines of Social Protest

Episode 63

mardi 1 août 2023 • Duration 01:37:00

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)

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Frederick Cooper's Illumination of History

Episode 62

lundi 10 juillet 2023 • Duration 45:52

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

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Developing AI Like Raising Kids - Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang

Episode 61

jeudi 1 juin 2023 • Duration 55:56

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-societies

CASBS program director Zachary Ugolnik served as co-producer of this episode.

Ted Chiang on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang

Ted Chiang in The New Yorker
"Why Computers Won't Make Themselves Smarter" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-computers-wont-make-themselves-smarter
"ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web" https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
"Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?" https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
"Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction

Explore the work of Alison Gopnik
http://alisongopnik.com/
http://www.gopniklab.berkeley.edu/alison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Gopnik
https://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-alison-gopnik-transcript.html

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New Visions for Effective Worker Influence

Episode 60

lundi 22 mai 2023 • Duration 01:26:34

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 Arts and Sciences. The entire issue is open access here. Panelist John Ahlquist's essay in the issue provided impetus for the organization of the event this podcast episode draws from.

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