Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with Social Psychology New Research Finds Angry Denials of Wrongdoing Leave Strong Impressions of Guilt 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. Read More Research and Commentary, Social Psychology African Americans Are Less Likely to Receive Responses to Emails, Study Finds New evidence from a team of researchers, including Batten professor John Holbein, suggests that everyday racial discrimination is far more widespread than previous studies have indicated. Read More Research and Commentary, Racial Justice and Equity, Social Psychology Employees Often Hesitate to Speak Up in the Workplace. What Can We Do About It? Batten postdoctoral fellow Jieun Pai is studying the complicated dynamics between workers and their managers. Read More Research and Commentary, Leadership, Social Psychology Batten Clinical Psychologist Offers 6 Tips for Parents of New College Students Batten's Tim Davis advises parents to put down the phone, stop texting their kids and give them the space and permission to struggle and build their own new, supportive networks in college. Read More Leadership, Social Psychology Lyangela Gutierrez Lyangela Gutierrez is a postdoctoral research associate at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Gutierrez researches diversity and inclusion in organizations by identifying and addressing factors that impact racial and gender equity in organizations. Read More Batten Publication, Staff, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Social Psychology Gerald Higginbotham Gerald Higginbotham is a postdoctoral research associate at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Higginbotham researches the role of culture and identity in education and politics, seeking to provide insight into how history functions as important context that shapes how individuals see themselves and others as well as how perceptions of history and its consequences are shaped by an individual’s attitudes and group memberships. Read More Batten Publication, Staff, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Social Psychology Teaching Pandemic Response Through Gamesmanship In a case of simulation imitating life, Batten's Center for Leadership Simulation and Gaming provides an opportunity for students to wrestle with a simulated pandemic online – during a worldwide pandemic. Read More Research and Commentary, Domestic Policy & Politics, Social Psychology We instinctively add on new features and fixes. Why don’t we subtract instead? 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. Read More Social Psychology Why People Forget that Less is Often More 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. Read More Social Psychology Why Our Brains Miss Opportunities to Improve through Subtraction 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. Read More Research and Commentary, Leadership, School Engineering, Social Psychology Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 2 Next page ›› Subscribe to Social Psychology Categories SE Minor(9) MPP(32) New Student(8) Batten Ambassadors(21) Curriculum(26) Student Life(26) Policy Minor(30) BA(46) Tuition and Financial Aid (1)Admissions(39) Recommendations(8) Alumni (1)Career Outcomes(7) Essays(6) Faculty(2) Personal Statement(2) Events(10) Application(26) Accelerated MPP(46)