False Positives Using Social Cognitive Mapping to Identify Children’s Peer Groups

Children and adolescents interact in peer groups, which are known to influence a range of psychological behavioral outcomes. In developmental psychology related disciplines, social cognitive mapping (SCM), as implemented with the SCM 4.0 software, is most commonly used method for identifying groups from report data. However, series four studies, we demonstrate that has an unacceptably high risk false positives. Specifically, show will identify even when applied random We introduce backbone extraction community detection one promising alternative SCM, offer several recommendations researchers seeking