The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research lab at Stanford University that offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying "the five core social and behavioral disciplines of

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between ...

, and

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

". It is one of the (currently ten) members of

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(SIAS). Its campus is with ample space for hosting groups of researchers. It has 54 studies, meeting rooms, a conference hall, a kitchen, and dining room with a private chef. Political scientist

Margaret Levi Margaret Levi (born 1947) is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory, notably on the origins and effects of trustworthy government. Education Margar ...

is the director of the center.

History

The center was founded in 1954 by the

Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare. Created in 1936 by Edsel Ford and his father Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a US$25,000 gift from Edsel Ford. By 1947, after the death ...

. The American educator Ralph W. Tyler served as the center's first director from 1954 to 1966. The CASBS buildings were designed by

William Wurster William Wilson Wurster (October 20, 1895 – September 19, 1973) was an American architect and architectural teacher at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, best known for his residential desig ...

, a local architect. Earlier, fellow selection was a closed process; new fellows were nominated by former fellows. However, since 2007, the center opened up the fellow selection process to applications. In 2008 it became officially part of Stanford University and reports to the Vice-Provost and Dean of Research.

Fellows

Each class of fellows numbers about 40 people. In the first 40 years of its existence it supported about 2,000 scientists and scholars.

Notable fellows

The institute has been home to notable scholars, including: * Paul S. Appelbaum *

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* Dorothy Cheney * Leda Cosmides *

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* Ralph W. Gerard *

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* Leopold H. Haimson *

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* Douglas Hofstadter *

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* Katherine Isbister * Murray Jarvik * Lee Jussim * Daniel Kahneman *

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* Terra Lawson-Remer *

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* Michael Macy *

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* Elijah Millgram *

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* Don Norman * Robert Nozick * Margaret O'Mara *

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* Kevin Hora *

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* Vernon L. Smith * Richard C. Snyder *

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* Herman D. Stein * Li Chenyang *

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* John Tooby *

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* Philip E. Vernon *

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* Irvin Yalom *

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References

External links

Center for Advanced Study website

List of CASBS Fellows
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