Life Science log

New data from a UA study reveals how romantically separated people give spoken clues to how they 're coping.A new study from the University of Arizona shows that people in the midst of a divorce typically reveal how they are handling things ? not so much by what they say but how they say it.In fact, data revealed that even complete strangers were able to figure out how people were coping with their emotions using relatively small amounts of information.The study, "Thin-Slicing Divorce: Thirty Seconds of Information Predict Changes in Psychological Adjustment Over 90 Days," published online in the journal Psychological Science, is one of a number of relatively recent person-perception studies that examine interpersonal distress, in this case when a marriage ends."We wanted to know how much information people actually need in order to know how another person is coping," said Ashley Mason, a UA doctoral student who conducted the research. "There's been a lot of person-perception research