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Carol M. Worthman

Researcher at Emory University

Publications -  146
Citations -  16240

Carol M. Worthman is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 141 publications receiving 13895 citations. Previous affiliations of Carol M. Worthman include Georgia State University & University of California, Berkeley.

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The Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. Goals, design, methods, and the prevalence of DSM-III-R disorders.

TL;DR: Poverty was the strongest demographic correlate of diagnosis, in both urban and rural children, in this rural sample of children.
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Puberty and depression: the roles of age, pubertal status and pubertal timing.

TL;DR: The period of emergence of increased risk for depression in adolescent girls appears to be a relatively sharply demarcated developmental transition occurring in mid-puberty, similar to that of boys before Tanner Stage III.
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Death hope and sex: life-history theory and the development of reproductive strategies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed that the allocation of reproductive ("mating" and "parenting") effort in adults may be partially contingent on their early experience with the causes and correlates of local high death rates.
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Obesity and Psychiatric Disorder: Developmental Trajectories

TL;DR: In a general population sample studied longitudinally, chronic obesity was associated with psychopathology and oppositional defiant disorder in boys and girls and depressive disorders in boys.