Can we talk? | Findings | Yale Alumni Magazine
Gregory Nemec When Olivia Descorbeth ’20 spent two high school summers interning in the laboratory of Yale neuroscientist Joy Hirsch, she developed an idea for an experiment. At Olivia’s school in Great Neck, New York, many of her classmates were wealthier than she. “I wanted to see if, cognitively, there was a distinction between communicating with someone from a similar or dissimilar socioeconomic background,” she says. Her research proposal fit with Hirsch’s research. As a profes...
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