Rose Mcdermott

Is Divorce Contagious? An Expert Weighs In

Katie Hafner | Posted 05.25.2011

Katie Hafner

When Rose McDermott, a professor of political science at Brown University, got divorced two years ago, she noticed that a cluster of her friends were splitting up at around the same time. She sensed this was no coincidence, and her hunch sparked one of the more interesting academic inquiries to have surfaced around the topic of divorce in recent years.

Divorce Is Contagious, New Study Suggests

Posted 05.25.2011

"Breaking up is hard to do, unless everyone else is doing it too," say three social scientists in a new working paper. In the paper (hat tip to the N...