Friendship and Peer Acceptance

Adolescent romance and depressive symptoms: The moderating effects of positive coping and perceived friendship competence  D.E. Szwedo et al., Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, April 2015

Association between friends' use of nicotine and cannabis and intake of both substances among adolescents  R. Herold al., International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, January 2021

Cascades of emotional support in friendship networks and adolescent smoking  C.M. Lakon et al., PLoS One, June 2017

Depressed adolescents' pupillary response to peer acceptance and rejection: The role of rumination  L.B. Stone et al., Child Psychiatry and Human Development, June 2016

The effect of social rank feedback on risk taking and associated reward processes in adolescent girls  Z.A. Op de Macks et al., Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, February 2017

Homies with aspirations and positive peer network ties: Associations with reduced frequent substance use among gang-affiliated Latino youth  E. van Dommelen-Gonzalez et al., Journal of Urban Health, April 2015

Increased neural response to peer rejection associated with adolescent depression and pubertal development  J.S. Silk et al., Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, November 2014

Interdependence of depressive symptoms, school involvement, and academic performance between adolescent friends: A dyadic analysis  C.M. Chow et al., British Journal of Educational Psychology, September 2015

It's time to drop the 'sticks and stones' cliche and help kids cope with the pain of exclusion  A. Nordberg, Washington Post, November 19, 2019

Loneliness and its association with psychological and somatic health problems among Czech, Russian and U.S. adolescents  A. Stickley et al., BMC Psychiatry, May 2016

Neural activation during anticipated peer evaluation and laboratory meal intake in overweight girls with and without loss of control eating  J.M. Jarcho et al., Neuroimage, March 2015

Neural bases of recommendations differ according to social network structure  M.B. O'Donnell et al., Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, January 2017

Neural connections foster social connections: A diffusion-weighted imaging study of social networks  W.H. Hampton et al., Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, May 2016

The neural development of 'us and them'  J.F. Guassi Moreira et al., Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, February 2017

The outsize influence of your middle-school friends  L. Denworth, The Atlantic, January 28, 2020

Peers and parents: A comparison between neural activation when winning for friends and mothers in adolescence  B.R. Braams & E.A. Crone, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, March 2017

Problematic peer functioning in girls with ADHD: A systematic literature review  F.M. Kok et al., PLoS One, November 2016

Risk and protection factors in the peer context: How do other children contribute to the psychosocial adjustment of the adolescent?  M.H. Véronneau et al., Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, March 2014

Social anxiety and peer helping in adolescent addiction treatment  M.E. Pagano et al., Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, May 2015

A survival analysis of adolescent friendships: The downside of dissimilarity  A.C. Hartl et al., Psychological Science, August 2015

What they bring: Baseline psychological distress differentially predicts neural response in social exclusion by children's friends and strangers in best friend dyads  S. Baddam et al., Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, November 2016