A recent poll from the the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health found that poverty leads to stress, affecting people’s ways of thinking and their overall health. In our region, researchers and doctors have found that living in poverty can actually hinder brain development.
This hour, we learn more about the psychology of poverty and find out what’s being done to combat some of the the stresses it brings on. We also talk to one researcher who has been looking at the impact of noise pollution on the brain development of children in low-income communities.
GUESTS:
- Kathleen Weldon - Research Manager for the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at UConn
- Johannes Haushofer - Assistant Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University
- Elisabeth Babcock - Chief Executive of Crittenton Women’s Union
- Kia Levey - Project Director of The New Haven MOMS Partnership
- Erika Skoe, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at UConn
