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Apr 07, 2021

Why Our Brains Miss Opportunities to Improve through Subtraction

Social Psychology
Leadership

In a new paper featured on the cover of Nature, Batten’s Gabrielle Adams, Benjamin Converse and co-authors explain why people systematically overlook subtractive improvements.

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