Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with 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 Read More Batten Publication, Staff, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Social Psychology Gerald Higginbotham 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 Jieun Pai Jieun Pai is a postdoctoral research associate at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Pai researches social hierarchy and conflict resolution to provide insight into how people can satisfy their need for status in teams and organizations harmoniously. Read More Batten Publication, Staff, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Social Psychology Analyst and Educator Brendan Boler to Join Batten School Faculty Educator, scholar, and analyst Brendan Boler will join the faculty at the Batten School for the 2020-21 academic year. As an assistant professor of public policy, Boler will teach core and elective leadership courses in both the BA and MPP curricula. Read More Education, Social Psychology Katherine L. Milkman - POSTPONED Read More Batten, Economics, Social Psychology Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 2 Next page ›› Subscribe to Social Psychology Categories Recommendations(6) Tuition and Financial Aid (1)Personal Statement(2) Admissions(35) Student Life(21) MPP(29) Batten Ambassadors(18) Faculty (1)SE Minor(3) Accelerated MPP(42) New Student(7) Curriculum(21) Events(9) Essays(4) BA(41) Alumni (1)Application(22) Policy Minor(27) Career Outcomes(5)