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Anthropologist uncovers New Orleans' early settlers

Professor Shannon Dawdy and her students dig deep in Crescent City's roots.

Loneliness undermines health as well as mental well-being

John Cacioppo suggests that chronic loneliness belongs among health risk factors such as smoking, obesity or lack of exercise.

Causes for sexual dysfunction change as people age

Sexual dysfunction is not an inevitable part of aging, but it is strongly related to a number of interrelated factors.

John List discusses value of field experiments in economics

“(Field experiments) represent a mixture of control and realism usually not achieved in the lab or with naturally occurring data.”

Bullies may enjoy seeing others in pain: Brain scans show disruption in natural empathetic response

said Jean Decety, Professor in Psychology and Psychiatry

Children's early gestures have important link to school preparedness

Children who convey more meanings with gestures at age 14 months have much larger vocabularies at 54 months than children who convey fewer meanings and are accordingly better prepared for school, according to research at the University of Chicago published in the journal Science on Friday, Feb. 13.

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