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Recent Content for Gabrielle Adams

Batten Faculty Recognized for Excellence in Teaching, Service, Research and Engagement

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This academic year, Batten School professors won a slew of internal and external recognitions for excellence in teaching, service, research and engagement.

Faculty Spotlight: Gabrielle Adams’ Work Represents ‘the Best of What We Do at Batten’

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Batten Professor Gabe Adams, whose latest research examines how sexism can be overlooked in the workplace, is the recipient of a 2022 Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.

The “Equal-Opportunity Jerk” Defense: Rudeness Can Obfuscate Gender Bias

Research

In this research, we identified a barrier that makes sexism hard to recognize: rudeness toward men. We found that observers judge a sexist perpetrator as less sexist if he is rude toward men.

Batten's Lipscomb Receives UVA's Prestigious Public Impact-Focused Research Award

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Batten professor Molly Lipscomb was honored with the university's Public Impact-Focused Research Award for her work examining the impact of bringing public services to low-income households in countries where services are needed.

New Research Finds Angry Denials of Wrongdoing Leave Strong Impressions of Guilt

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The next time you are accused of doing something you did not do, you may want to check your anger at the door. New research from Batten's Gabrielle Adams has found that such strong reactions lead others to assume the worst: that you did exactly what you have been accused of doing.

Batten Student to Pursue Master of Global Affairs Degree as a Schwarzman Scholar in Beijing

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Batten student Lisette Dubow (BA '22) has been selected to pursue a one-year Master of Global Affairs degree as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing next year. 

Gender-based Violence in the 21st Century: Exploring the Social Systems that Shape the Female Experience

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Please join the Batten's Women in Policy, The Equity Collaborative, and Batten Graduate Council for a dinner and dialogue event exploring Gender-based Violence in the 21st Century.

Anger Damns the Innocent

Research

False accusations permeate social life—from the mundane blaming of other people to more serious accusations of infidelity and workplace wrongdoing. Importantly, false accusations can have grave consequences, including broken relationships, job loss, and reputational damage.  In this article, we document an equally pernicious phenomenon—the misuse of anger as a cue to predict whether a suspect has been falsely accused.

Batten's Gabrielle Adams and Lucy Bassett Receive UVA's Prestigious All-University Faculty Teaching Award

News

Despite many challenges posed by the pandemic, Adams and Bassett demonstrated outstanding skill, compassion and creativity in keeping students engaged in virtual classes and relating their subject material to daily life.

We instinctively add on new features and fixes. Why don’t we subtract instead?

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Across a series of studies published this month in the journal Nature, Batten’s Gabrielle Adams, Benjamin Converse and co-authors demonstrated that people tend to overlook the option to subtract parts when asked to change or improve something. In an op-ed for The Washington Post, they explore why ‘less is more’ is a hard insight to act on.

Why People Forget that Less is Often More

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Why, when solving problems, do people prefer adding things to getting rid of them? In an article for The Economist, Batten’s Gabrielle Adams and Benjamin Converse explain their research on subtractive improvements. 

Why Our Brains Miss Opportunities to Improve through Subtraction

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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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