Friendship is the single most important factor influencing our health, well-being, and
happiness. Creating and maintaining friendships is, however, extremely costly, in terms of …

Abstract The United States has made a significant effort and investment in STEM education,
yet the size and the composition of the STEM workforce continues to fail to meet demand. It …

Use of conversational artificial intelligence (AI), such as humanlike social chatbots, is
increasing. While a growing number of people is expected to engage in intimate …

“My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I'm moving backward. And I
can't do anything about it.”–Esperanza Over two million of the nation's eleven million …

Classrooms are complex social systems, and student-teacher relationships and interactions
are also complex, multicomponent systems. We posit that the nature and quality of …

Cyberbullying, the use of information and communication technologies to intentionally harm
others, has become an important area of research. Studies have begun to investigate the …

Students' attachment to school and their academic engagement are important, yet
understudied, aspects of the educational experience. In their study, the authors examined …

Children and adolescents now communicate online to form and/or maintain relationships
with friends, family, and strangers. Relationships in “real life” are important for children's and …

▪ Abstract In this chapter I review recent research on the nature, meaning, and impact of
extrafamilial relationships during adolescence. I use findings of quantitative and qualitative …

Objectives. We examined how race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation shape
adolescents' likelihood of being bullied and vulnerability to suicide ideation. Methods. We …