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Oct 2022
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S3 Ep7: The Science Behind Gossip with E...

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Dr. Eshin Jolly joins us this week to teach us about the science of gossiping!!! Eshin is a post-doctoral researcher in the Computational Social Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at Dartmouth College. 

Follow Eshin on Twitter @Eshjolly

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Episode transcript here.

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Normal Gossip is hosted by Kelsey McKinney (@mckinneykelsey) and produced by Alex Sujong Laughlin (@alexlaughs).

Credits recorded by Ben Sattinger. 

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