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Robert B. Edgerton has passed away
Professor Robert B. Edgerton passed away following a stroke on July, 2016 at the age of 84. Professor Edgerton had a distinguished 47-year career at UCLA, where he also received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and his doctorate in the Department of Anthropology. He started his long UCLA […]
UCLA Anthropologists study laughter around the world
Anthropologists Daniel Fessler, Brooke Scelza, and Edward Clint (graduate student), and Greg Bryant of UCLA Communication Studies have found that all around the world, people hearing only brief instances of colaughter produced by pairs of American English speakers in real conversations are able to reliably identify friends and strangers. Participants’ judgments of friendship status were […]