Media

Want to learn more about Lifting the Bar?

The 1-page letter that reduced recidivism to juvenile detention in Oakland, CA by 40-percentage-points

Stanford News. October 5, 2021. 3 minutes

Webinar

Accelerating Public impact; Scholarship & Partnership Help Oakland Students Thrive. Discover Stanford, January 26, 2022. 57 minutes

Other Online Resources

Stanford Impact Labs Site

Primary Writings

Lifting the Bar: A Relationship-Orienting Intervention Reduces Recidivism Among Children Reentering School From Juvenile Detention. (Walton et al., 2021 Psychological Science).

Want to learn about wise interventions?

Even brief exercises that address how people make sense of themselves, others, and social situations can transform our lives. They're not magic!

"Psychologically 'wise' interventions: How they can help us understand and solve persistent social problems."

The Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, May 13, 2022. 1 hour.

Why interventions should be quiet, not loud. Why interveners need to get out of the way: It's not about you!

The Agency Fund. 2 minutes.

Resources

Wiseinterventions.org provides a searchable, addable database of psychologically wise interventions, based on Walton & Wilson (2018).

Podcasts, Interviews, and News Coverage

Applying wise interventions around the world. With Kate Orkin. The Centre for the Study of African Economies: Research Podcasts. May 12, 2022.
An interview on wise interventions at ProgressFocused.com, February 16, 2021.
The big impact of small interventions with Stanford's Greg Walton. The Knowledge Project, Ep. #64, August 2019.
Brief wise interventions can change lives. January 31, 2019. David Myers blog post.
Changing the way people perceive problems in their lives will help society too, Stanford scholar says. November 5, 2018. Stanford News.

Primary Writings

The Handbook of Wise Interventions: How Social Psychology Can Help People Change. (Walton & Crum, 2020). Featured Author Q&A.
Seed and Soil: Psychological Affordances in Contexts Help to Explain Where Wise Interventions Succeed or Fail. (Walton & Yeager, 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science).
"Bad" things reconsidered (Walton & Brady, 2020).
Wise Interventions: Psychological Remedies for Social and Personal Problems (Walton & Wilson, 2018, Psychological Review)
The New Science of Wise Interventions (Walton, 2014, Current Directions in Psychological Science).

Want to learn more about social-belonging?

Including how a 30-60 minute exercise addressing students' experience of belonging in school transitions can reduce inequality and help students thrive years into the future.

The Social-Belonging Intervention

Stanford Graduate School of Business. March 30, 2012. 6 minutes.

Designing Supportive Learning Environments

Mindset Scholars Network. 2 minutes.

Talks

Questions of Belonging: How they work and how we can create schools in which every student belongs. Danish-American Well-Being Seminar 2023. October 12, 2023. 36 minutes.
Social Belonging: Where Science Meets Practice. SXSW EDU, March 5, 2024. 40 minutes. Audio only.
A Question of Belonging, Character Lab Educator Summit. July, 2017. 25 minutes.

Podcasts, Interviews, and Webinars

What new research says about fostering a 'sense of belonging' in classrooms. With Jeffrey R. Young, EdSurge. March 19, 2024.
Talkshow with Xiangyun Du. Danish-American Well-Being Seminar 2023. October 12, 2023. 31 minutes.
Reducing inequality by increasing belonging with Dr. Greg Walton. A Bit More Complicated. On Spotify and Google Play. May 5, 2023.
Building the capacity for belonging. With Adrienne Lu, Jillian Kinzie, and Gregory D. Williams. The Chronicle of Higher Education. April 27, 2023. The Puck: Venture Capital & Beyond. On iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Soundcloud. August 25, 2022.
An interview on how simple cues can make people feel connected, even while being physically apart, says Stanford psychologist. Stanford News, April 16, 2020.
A webinar on Building college student resilience - simple, effective interventions that support retention. Webinar with Bette Bottoms and Mary Murphy. February 28, 2014.

Primary Writings

Stop telling students, “You Belong!” Education Week, November 9, 2021
A review of the social-belonging intervention (Walton & Brady, 2020).
The many questions of belonging (Walton & Brady, 2018).
Primary evaluations of the social-belonging intervention: Walton & Cohen, 2007; Walton & Cohen, 2011; Walton et al., 2015; Yeager, Walton, Brady et al., 2016; Goyer et al., 2019; Brady et al., 2020; Murphy et al., 2020; Walton et al., 2023.