Two longitudinal studies examined associations between relational aggression and friendship quality during adolescence. In Study 1, 62 adolescents in Grades 6 (25.8%), 7 (32.3%), and 8 (41.9%) completed assessments of friendship affiliations, relational and overt aggression, and friendship quality at 2 time points, 1 year apart. Results using actor partner interdependence modeling indicated tha...

The study examined whether reciprocal friendship quantity or quality can mitigate genetic vulnerability for depression symptoms in children. The sample comprised 168 monozygotic twin pairs and 126 same-sex dizygotic twin pairs assessed in Grade 4 (mean age = 10.04 years). Friendship participation was measured via reciprocal nominations of close friendships within the classroom. Friendship quali...

As I reread and reflected on Sex, Love, Gender, found myself asking what the bar for success goals of book is, at least insofar as these concern its non-Kantian audience (I know there are a rich array contributions to inside-baseball Kant scholarship here that just go well over my head). Where does this leave those us whowork sex, love, gender within feminist, anti-oppressive, inclusive traditi...

Abstract Peers, particularly in-school peers, shape adolescent health behaviors. Yet little is known about peers and self-injurious thoughts This systematic review examined studies of sociometric school-based peer-friendship networks associations with A search across five databases identified fifteen eligible studies. Studies were mainly longitudinal (n=13), from two countries (USA China), adol...

The goal of this paper is to investigate the interaction between social ties and deceptive behavior within an experimental setting. To do so, we implement a modified sender-receiver game in which a sender obtains a private signal regarding the value of a state variable and sends a message related to the value of this state variable to the receiver. The sender is allowed to be truthful or to lie...

We study stable matching problems in networks where players are embedded in a social context, and may incorporate friendship relations or altruism into their decisions. Each player is a node in a social network and strives to form a good match with a neighboring player. We consider the existence, computation, and inefficiency of stable matchings from which no pair of players wants to deviate. W...