Yoon and Rodrigues (IMAGE)

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Yoon and Rodrigues

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Led by Si On Yoon (left) and Michelle Rodrigues (right), an interdisciplinary team at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign determined that older adult women converse more effectively with strangers than their younger counterparts; additionally, communicating with female friends decreases stress hormone levels for women across the lifespan.

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Headshots provided courtesy of Yoon and Rodrigues.

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