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Neal Krause, a sociologist and public-health expert at the University of Michigan, has tried to quantify some of those more amorphous variables in a longitudinal study of 1,500 people that he has been conducting since 1997. He has focused particularly on how regular churchgoers weather economic downturns as well as the stresses and health woes that go along with them. Not surprisingly, he has found that parishioners benefit when they receive social support from their church. But he has also found that those people who give help fare even better than those who receive it - a pillar...
...months, you can't see a difference with their speech, but you can already see a difference with their gestures," says Goldin-Meadow, a leading expert on gesture. "And children's gestures can be traced back to parents' gestures...
...famous who collaborates often in a variety of genres and who gives no sign of slowing down anytime soon. The man they selected is today’s most frequently cited legal scholar in America, the author of over 500 works including more than 15 books, a constitutional law expert whose interests range from how public policy can improve one’s life to how the online coalescence of like-minded groups can stifle dialogue and undermine democracy. He is Cass R. Sunstein ’75, President Barack H. Obama’s nominee for the head...
...There were a lot of shenanigans that went on in the synthetic space," says Janet Tavakoli, who is an expert in structure finance and author of the recent book Dear Mr. Buffett. "These bonds were created by financial meth labs. Now the government is going to have to figure out how to take...
...What you find is that suicides happen because of the total burden the person is feeling, how much they feel things can't get better and they can't tolerate the psychological pain they are experiencing," says Dr. John L. McIntosh, a psychologist and suicide expert at Indiana University. "Sometimes it takes years for the effect of economic downturn or instability to trickle down to the level of the psyche or penetrate the psyche, to get under the skin to produce some of the negative outcomes such as suicides...