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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 16h

Can AI dialogues improve psychological well-being? CASBS faculty fellow @robbwiller.bsky.social among the coauthors of a new paper that tests whether brief, structured dialogues grounded in psych research can reliably help

Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

See Robb's explanatory thread 👇

Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 18h

🚨New WP!🚨

Structured AI Dialogues Can Increase Happiness and Meaning in Life

In a preregistered RCT, four psychology-grounded #AI chatbots improved well-being across several outcomes.

Co-authors: Jonas Schoene, Johannes Eichstaedt, Aadesh Salecha, Sonja Lyubomirsky

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 19h

We cracked the code. How to grow 10 years intellectually in one biological year

Be a CASBS fellow. Catherine Ramírez explains

APPLY for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS fellowship. DEADLINE Oct 31

Info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZq...

CASBS fellowship: Catherine Ramírez

YouTube video by CASBS

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 21h

Oct 24 | 1:45pm | Stanford campus

CASBS fellow Deepa Fernandes delivers the keynote address at the day-long Provostial Fellows Symposium on "Power, Voice, and Place: Perspectives on Race Across Disciplines"

Full schedule & registration link: facultydevelopment.stanford.edu/provostial-f...

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 1d

We're sad to learn about the passing of 1987-88 CASBS fellow Clause Offe, "among the most prominent theorists in modern social science and one of the most cited authors in political sociology"

Institute for Human Sciences remembrance: www.iwm.at/news/claus-o...

Claus Offe in Memoriam

Claus Offe served as professor of political sociology at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin until 2015. He began his academic career in the intellectual environment of the Frankfurt School as a...

www.iwm.at

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 1d

A copy of the NEW BOOK by Maisha Winn, "Futuring Black Lives," developed substantially while Maisha was in residence as a 2022-23 CASBS fellow, has entered into the Center's renowned Ralph W Tyler Collection 📚

About this Vanderbilt Univ. Press book: www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650791...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 2d

We're sad to learn of the passing of 1987-88 CASBS fellow David Berliner, a renowned educational psychologist & public intellectual who influenced generations of scholars

ASU obit: news.asu.edu/20251002-art...

Berliner's CASBS work: casbs.stanford.edu/people/david...

Remembering David C. Berliner: Scholar, gadfly, mentor and defender of public education | ASU News

Two bored 18-year-olds walk into a bar.That is, in fact, almost how the career trajectory of one of the most influential and admired education scholars in America began.Not long after he turned 18, Da...

news.asu.edu

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 3d

Challenges. Battles. A quest to solve mysteries. Finding community. Uncertain futures. Joys. Superpowers. A family's journey

Time is of the essence for Deepa Fernandes to write the trade book that’s been percolating. She poignantly explained why in our kickoff fellows seminar of the fellowship year

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 3d

Sad to learn of the passing of 1973-74 CASBS fellow Julian Wolpert, renowned for pioneering the use of quantitative approaches to understanding social & behavioral dimensions of geography

Princeton obit: www.princeton.edu/news/2025/10...

Wolpert's work at CASBS: casbs.stanford.edu/people/julia...

Julian Wolpert, a pioneer of urban planning and 'permanent giant in geography,' dies at 92

Wolpert championed the use of quantitative approaches to understand the social and behavioral dimensions of geography.

www.princeton.edu

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 4d

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

Literary criticism & Big Data - video interview w/2024-25 CASBS fellow Mark Algee-Hewitt on how machines help literature scholars & intellectual historians explain the life of concepts, aesthetics & genres

booksandideas.net/Humanities-a...

Humanities and Computational Analysis

While we have entered the age of generative AI, it is worth having a look at how computers can help literature scholars and intellectual historians to explain the life of concepts, aesthetics and genr...

booksandideas.net

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 4d

Oct 6 | 12pm PT | Online

CASBS fellow @ellenernstkossek.bsky.social presenting @harvardkennedy.bsky.social on how employers need to consider how job characteristics influence the differential benefits of work-life interventions

More info & RSVP: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/advan...

Advancing Supervisor Support for Flexibility through Training

In this seminar, Prof. Ellen Kossek will share the results from a randomized employer field experiment on training supervisors around work-life balance.

www.hks.harvard.edu

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 5d

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE

Colin Camerer: Econ's Neurovisionary

@sweiwang.bsky.social chats w/@cfcamerer.bsky.social on his work on the neuroeconomics of habit formation, building & scaling behavioral models, & neuroscience as a wide-open field for economists

🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#coli...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 7d

We don’t need to blow up the system, but we do need to reclaim it, as fmr CASBS fellow Bob Kaplan explains in this sharp piece @chronicle.com

www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Opinion | How Academic Publishing Exploits Public Science

The National Institutes of Health is right to resist the profiteering private companies.

www.chronicle.com

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 7d

NEW PUB coauthored by CASBS fellow @profpjones.bsky.social 👇

Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social · 7d

👀 New from @profpjones.bsky.social @deandulay.bsky.social @anilmenon.bsky.social & @yoniabramson.bsky.social, studying the effects of 🇺🇦 President Zelensky’s historical analogies with survey experiments in four countries – US, UK, Germany, and Israel. Do these appeals impact foreign policy attitudes?

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 7d

#InternationalPodcastDay

Revisit our superb episode on "Deploying Behavioral Science on the Front Lines of Social Protest"

CASBS fellows @eranhalperin75.bsky.social (2022-23) & @robbwiller.bsky.social (2012-13, 2020-21) compare cross-national research findings

➡️ casbs.stanford.edu/podcast-2023...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 8d

What is CASBS fellowship?

Watch former fellows talk about it in their own words in a suite of short videos: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

Then APPLY for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS residential fellowship by Oct 31, 2025

Info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · Jun 24

New Partnership w/Linköping University

The Swedish university will support one fellow per year at CASBS starting w/the 2026-27 academic year. The agreement deepens the Center's global outreach efforts facilitating an annual influx of international talent.

MORE: casbs.stanford.edu/news/new-fel...

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cristianimachado.bsky.social @cristianimachado.bsky.social · 9d

Happy and proud to be part of this wonderful group of scholars. Already learning a lot, and looking forward to an intense academic year!

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 14d

The 2025-26 CASBS class.

Resent them, if you must, for their unbridled beauty.

But love them, you must, for their spectacular talent.

Fellows: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...

Visiting scholars: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...

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Ian Goldin @iangoldin.bsky.social · 18d

youtube.com/watch?v=yQRl...

Can We End Global Poverty? 🌍💰 - with Former Nelson Mandela Advisor Ian Goldin

YouTube video by Moving Europe Podcast

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 12d

You know it's gonna be good when it's an all-CASBS affair - Mike Albertus (CASBS fellow, 2019-20) in conversation with William Howell (2009-10) & Terry Moe (1992-93)... 💯

Michael Albertus @mikealbertus.bsky.social · 12d

My interview with @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social Dean Will Howell and @stanforduniversity.bsky.social Prof. Terry Moe, leading experts on the American presidency, on their important new book The Rise of the Strongman Presidency @princetonupress.bsky.social

michaelalbertus.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

The Rise of the Strongman Presidency

My interview with Johns Hopkins Professor William Howell and Stanford Professor Terry Moe on their new book on the transformation of presidential power

michaelalbertus.substack.com

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 12d

2025 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Explorations in Cognition," a volume co-edited by the legendary Don Norman.

A 1973-74 CASBS fellow, Norman came to the right place. Were it not for the Center, dozens if not hundreds of books probably would not have been completed

#CREATEDatCASBS

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 12d

Read "Fragile Foundations: Hidden Risks of Generative AI," a NEW REPORT @bertelsmannst.bsky.social by 2024-25 CASBS fellow Anne Washington. Written at CASBS

Anne highlights the dangers foundation models pose to vulnerable groups & advances alternatives

➡️ www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/de/publikati...

Fragile Foundations: Hidden Risks of Generative AI

Foundation models are the backbone of generative AI and thus central to applications such as ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot. However, their use comes with risks: from randomly compiled training data and ...

www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 13d

Sad to learn of the passing of 1993-94 CASBS fellow Peter Whybrow, known for research on the pathophysiology & clinical treatment of mood disorder, esp bipolar disorder. A copy of his book "A Mood Apart" resides in the Center's Ralph Tyler Collection

@wikipedia.org: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_C...

Peter C. Whybrow - Wikipedia

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 13d

Institutions are being outflanked by bad-faith actors who are weak on facts but employ superior communication tactics. Nonpartisan analysts must rethink tactics as well as their theory of influence, argues fmr CASBS fellow @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social in this coauthored essay @carnegieendowment.org

Rachel Kleinfeld @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social · 13d

People like me, who have spent a lifetime building credibility, face a real problem when most Americans no longer trust institutions. We need to face the new terms of trust for our expertise to matter. Renée DiResta@noUpside & I wrote this to explain why & how: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies

To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

carnegieendowment.org

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 14d

The 2025-26 CASBS class.

Resent them, if you must, for their unbridled beauty.

But love them, you must, for their spectacular talent.

Fellows: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...

Visiting scholars: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 15d

Fascinating new findings coauthored by 2024-25 CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social in @bjsociology.bsky.social 👇

Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 15d

What is the liberalizing potential of higher education? In this @bjsociology.bsky.social research, we show substantial variation in the association between field of study and anti-immigrant sentiment — a pattern most pronounced among those with tertiary degrees doi.org/10.1111/1468...