Because diverse school settings provide students with opportunities to form same‐and cross‐
group relationships with youth of various ethnicities and races, an important question arises …

How do we study peer relationships and the socialization processes that occur within them?
Social network analysis provides tools that can be used to answer questions about the …

Measures of social network position provide unique social and relational information yet
have not been used extensively by researchers who study peer relationships. This study …

This chapter focuses on the problem of nesting of persons in social networks or cliques, and
the analyses of such data over time. The study of social networks and cliques is an important …

Past research has found intergroup contact to be a promising intervention to reduce
prejudice and has identified adolescence as the developmental period during which …

Although researchers have collected social network data to characterize childhood and
adolescent relationships since the 1930s, an expansion of social network analytic …

Psychologists are interested in understanding how early social environments impact
children's behavior and cognition. Early social environments are comprised of social …

Intergroup contact represents a powerful way to improve intergroup attitudes and to
overcome prejudice and discrimination. However, long‐term effects of intergroup contact …

Peer relations become significant socializing agents for diverse behaviors during
adolescence. This study investigated relationship selection and social influence of early …

The current study examined how adolescents' social support networks are associated with
long-term psychosocial outcomes (depressive symptoms and romantic relationship quality) …