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Phil Converse Tribute

Date: Sat, 01/03/2015Phil Converse was the Center's fourth Director, serving in that position from 1989 to 1994. His standing in the social and behavioral community was, of course, already well...

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Giving and Jean MacCluer

Date: Sat, 01/03/2015 60th Anniversary Gifts The extraordinary generosity of the CASBS community is evident in your gifts commemorating the Center’s 60th Anniversary, including:     Reading Room. Gift...

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Tyler Collection

Date: Sat, 01/03/2015Tyler Collection.We asked the current group of CASBS fellows for their perspectives on influential works in the Tyler Collection. The responses ranged from surprise at finding a...

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CASBS Fellows 2014-15

Date: Sat, 01/03/2015The 28 Fellows, 12 Consulting Scholars, and 2 Visiting Scholars who attended the Center in 2014-15 are now in the process of leaving CASBS and attempting to apply the...

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Ghosts in the Study

Date: Sat, 01/03/2015Ghosts in the StudyWe asked the CASBS Fellows of 2014-15 which of the former in habitants of their studies (the Ghosts listed outside each room) they would most like to speak with....

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NPR’s Science Friday Features Mindset Work

Date: Fri, 01/16/2015The Interim Chair of the Mindset Scholars Network at CASBS, Stanford Psychology Professor Carol Dweck, was interviewed on research published in Science in which researchers say...

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CASBS Remembers Psychiatrist Robert S. Wallerstein

Date: Thu, 01/22/2015Two-time CASBS Fellow (Classes of 1965-66 and 1982-83) Robert Wallerstein died on December 19, 2014 at the age of 94. Wallerstein’s extensive accomplishments and generous...

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CASBS Welcomes New Board Members

Date: Thu, 01/22/2015CASBS welcomes two new members to our Board:Shona L. Brown Google EmeritusMariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuellar Associate Justice of the California Supreme CourtClick here to see a...

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Essay on CASBS

Date: Tue, 02/03/2015In my study at night, it becomes very quiet. Twinkling lights stretch out across the bay. The owls call out in a language unknown to me. There are no birds to see in the dark, so I...

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CASBS Fellow Damon Centola Paper Cited in Washington Post

Date: Sat, 02/07/2015 From the Washington Post (Feb 7, 2015):"A new study led by the University of Pennsylvania's Damon Centola [CASBS Felllow 2014-2015] provides a scientific explanation for how...

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Thoughts about My Second Go-Around

Date: Tue, 03/03/2015Thoughts about My Second Go-Round B. Gibbons March, 2015 This is my second fellowship at CASBS, and I am realizing that this one is even more formative than the first. But some...

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Zuckerberg Likes Kuhn

Date: Wed, 03/18/2015Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is recommending Thomas S Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” to his followers as part of his “A Year in Books” project. Business Insider...

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An Ancient Lesson in Civics

Date: Thu, 03/19/2015In an Op-Ed in The New York Times Melissa Lane, CASBS Fellow 2012-13, considers the models employed by Ancient Greek and Roman politicians to address the imbalances in power...

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The Dress and Social Networks

Date: Mon, 03/23/2015Was the dress in the photograph blue and black or white and gold? If you were on social media in late February this year, chances are you came across this unimportant but...

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Facebook CEO Promoting Fellow Michael Chwe's Book

Date: Tue, 03/31/2015Mark Zuckerberg is recommending CASBS Fellow Michael Chwe's book, Rational ritual: culture, coordination, and common knowledge (Princeton, 2003) as a part of his "A Year of Books"...

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Mindset Scholars Network credited in White House press release

Date: Wed, 04/01/2015Under "Supporting STEM Teachers," the press release details the work of the network, based at CASBS:read more

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CASBS Announces Class of 2015-16

Date: Fri, 04/03/2015 We’re delighted to announce the Class of 2015-16.  The incoming class represents a diversity of fields within the behavioral sciences: anthropology, economics, geography, history,...

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CASBS Fellows To Speak at The Interval

Date: Mon, 04/20/2015Current Fellow D. Fox Harrell speaks on Coding Ourselves/Coding Others: Imagining Social Identities Through Computing, at The Interval bar/café at Fort Mason on May 5, 2015.The...

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Becker and the Conventions of the Unconventional

Date: Thu, 04/23/2015A New Yorker profile considers the work of sociologist Howard Becker, CASBS 1969-70: “From drug use to queer theory, Howard Becker changed the way we think about deviance.” Read...

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David I. Kertzer Wins the Pulitzer Prize

Date: Sat, 04/25/2015Former CASBS Fellow, David I. Kertzer, is the 2015 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. The jury cited Kertzer’s book, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret...

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National Academy Elects CASBS Director And Four Former Fellows

Date: Tue, 04/28/2015Election to the National Academy of Sciences is one of the highest honors a scientist can receive in this country. Early this morning CASBS Director Margaret Levi found out that...

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Mindset Interventions In High School and College

Date: Thu, 04/30/2015Research by members of the Mindset Scholars Network housed at CASBS, has been highlighted in recent days. The Stanford Report interviewed CASBS Consulting Scholar Carol Dweck on...

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One Thing 80% Of Americans Agree On

Date: Thu, 05/07/2015CASBS Consulting Scholar Jon Krosnick, interviewed in the LA Times Opinion pages, says that Americans overwhelmingly want government action on climate change:“What we've found is...

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Poverty and Social Exclusion at a Cellular Level

Date: Sun, 05/10/2015The key to understanding the health effects of poverty and marginalization may lie in adding cellular research to detailed sociological data. A recent study lead by two-time CASBS...

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Continued Focus on Common Knowledge

Date: Tue, 05/12/2015The Chronicle of Higher Education highlights the attention being payed to current Fellow Michael Chwe as the result of his book, Rational Ritual, being featured in Facebook founder...

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Hilarious Dating Advice From Social Scientists

Date: Tue, 05/12/2015Comedian Aziz Ansari has poked fun at the perils of romance as a standup comedian and in high profile television roles, most recently as Tom Haverford on Parks and Recreation. When...

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Measurement Matters In The Application Of Mindset

Date: Wed, 05/13/2015Visiting Scholar Angela Duckworth and CASBS Fellow David Yeager urge caution in use of non-cognitive measures in psychological research. In an article published in Education...

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John Seely Brown on the Whitewater World

Date: Thu, 05/14/2015CASBS board member John Seely Brown(JSB) received an honorary doctorate from Arizona State University this week before delivering a commencement address in which he encouraged...

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Poverty and Social Exclusion at a Cellular Level

Date: Wed, 06/03/2015Are the daily stresses of living in some of the poorest neighborhoods in America struggling to cope with chronic ill health, to stay safe, to feed hungry kids written in the body...

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Valentina Bosetti at The Interval: “Life’s a Great Balancing Act”

Date: Tue, 06/23/2015CASBS Fellow Valentina Bosetti will speak at The Interval at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Tuesday, June 23 rd at 7:30 p.m. For tickets to her talk “Life’s a Great Balancing Act”...

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Glenn Loury Advises Congress

Date: Mon, 06/29/2015Incoming CASBS Fellow Glenn Loury (2015-16) recently presented at a session hosted by Congress on matters related to prison overpopulation in the US and its effects on minority...

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Maryanne Wolf at The Interval: “The Changing Reading Brain in a Digital Culture”

Date: Tue, 07/14/2015CASBS Fellow Maryanne Wolf will speak at The Interval at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Tuesday, July 14th at 7:30 p.m. For tickets to her talk “The Changing Reading Brain in a...

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CASBS Fellowship Applications Open for 2016-17

Date: Mon, 07/20/2015The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University is now accepting online fellowship applications for the academic year 2016-17.  The Center is also...

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Andrei S. Markovits Wins University of Michigan Press Book Award

Date: Tue, 07/21/2015Former CASBS fellow Andrei S. Markovits is the 2015 winner of the University of Michigan Press Book Award. Markovits worked on From Property to Family: American Dog Rescue and the...

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Measurement Matters In The Application Of Mindset

Date: Mon, 08/03/2015MacArthur Award winner and CASBS Consulting Scholar Angela Duckworth and Mindset Scholars Network(MSN) Co-Chair and CASBS Fellow David Yeager concluded the 2014-15 CASBS Symposium...

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CASBS Project on Future of Work and Workers

Date: Mon, 08/03/2015What worries you most—and/or excites you most—about the future of work and workers?  With support from The Rockefeller Foundation, CASBS asked this of business and union leaders,...

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Elevating Common Knowledge

Date: Mon, 08/03/2015Political scientist Michael Chwe (CASBS Fellow 2014-15), had a well deserved, if unexpected, period in the spotlight when a book he wrote 14 years ago, Rational Ritual, was chosen...

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Sara Miller McCune Endows the Directorship of the Center for Advanced Study...

Date: Mon, 08/24/2015Entrepreneur and philanthropist Sara Miller McCune has devoted much of her career to supporting social science research. At Scholars’ Retreat, Work Advances Sara Miller McCune...

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Stanford Cyber Initiative to sponsor one CASBS 2016-17 Fellowship

Date: Fri, 10/09/2015New in 2016-17, the Stanford Cyber Initiative is supporting one fellow who will be engaged in producing policy-relevant research on the integration of cyber technologies into our...

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First in the 2015-16 CASBS Symposium Series – Evidence of Change – features...

Date: Fri, 10/09/2015Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over...

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Murphy Featured on the “Academic Minute” (audio)

Date: Wed, 10/14/2015On October 1 CASBS fellow Mary Murphy was the featured guest on Inside Higher Ed’s “Academic Minute.” In the recorded audio segment, Murphy explores how women in science,...

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Murphy Promotes Diversity in Tech through Mindset Scholars Network

Date: Wed, 10/14/2015CASBS Fellow Mary Murphy is the co-author, with Stanford University’s Greg Walton, of “15 Hacks for Building Diversity in Tech,” an issue brief published in September that...

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Moen Co-authors Award-winning Article

Date: Wed, 10/14/2015CASBS fellow Phyllis Moen is co-author of an article published in the American Sociological Review that on October 1 received the 2015 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in...

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Hyman in Huffington Post: Put Payday Lenders out of Business

Date: Wed, 10/14/2015In the blog he writes for the Huffington Post, CASBS fellow Louis Hyman published a piece on October 2 that advocates for protecting the working poor from predatory lending...

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Research Affiliate Bell Garners Media Attention Surrounding Release of "The...

Date: Wed, 10/14/2015In June former CASBS fellow (2003-4) and current CASBS Research Affiliate Daniel Bell published The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy (Princeton Univ....

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Rasmussen’s Book Wins Praise from the British Medical Association

Date: Wed, 10/14/2015CASBS fellow Nicolas Rasmussen’s book Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2014) received a coveted “Highly Commended”...

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CASBS Hosts Screening and Discussion of the forthcoming film EXPERIMENTER

Date: Thu, 10/15/2015On October 6 CASBS fellows, colleagues from Stanford’s psychology and political science departments, and other guests were treated to a screening of the film EXPERIMENTER, a...

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Fellowship Opportunity: CASBS 2016 Summer Institute on Organizations and...

Date: Thu, 10/15/2015Directed by Robert Gibbons (economics and management, MIT) and Woody Powell (education and sociology, Stanford), the CASBS 2016 summer institute on Organizations and their...

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Risman Inducted into Sociological Research Association

Date: Thu, 10/15/2015CASBS fellow Barbara Risman, an expert on gender, sexuality, marriage, and family, has been inducted into the Sociological Research Association, an honor society of sociological...

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PRESS RELEASE: Kenneth Prewitt Recipient of 2015 SAGE-CASBS Award

Date: Fri, 10/30/2015Press ReleaseContact:  (US) Camille Gamboa Camille.gamboa@sagepub.com  / Tel: 805-410-7441(UK) Katie Baker katie.baker@sagepub.co.uk  / Tel: +44 (0)20 7324 8719Kenneth Prewitt...

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