Stanford Communication Cliff Nass addresses the CASBS symposium.
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford recently held its first conference in nearly six decades, with talks on topics ranging from aging to Facebook. Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences , or CASBS, has a slightly monastic feel. It's a palatial compound on a hill to the east of the university, a tranquil retreat for prominent scholars of the humanities and social sciences, including not a few Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and MacArthur Fellows. Last week, for the first time in its 58-year history, CASBS stepped down from the mountaintop to host a social sciences summit. Comprising a smorgasbord of talks by experts in fields from game theory to workplace politics, the daylong conference also featured keynote addresses from New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell and Harvard psychology Professor Steven Pinker. Emails are stupid. The brief, interactive talks leaned toward the love triangle underlying modern society: the individual, other humans and technology.
TO READ THIS ARTICLE, CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT
And extend your reading, free of charge and with no commitment.
