Beyond dyadic interdependence: Actor-oriented models for co-evolving social networks and individual behaviors

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Network–Behavior Dynamics (2013, background): “Lazarsfeld and Merton (1954) coined the term homophily for this process; Byrne (1971) referred to it as similarity attraction.”
Transformations in adolescent peer networks (2011, background): “Overall, there is no consistent evidence in social network models that mutual friends have a stronger influence than unilateral friends (see for two exceptions Burk et al., 2007; Ojanen, Sijtsema, Hawley, & Little, 2010).”
Friendship and Delinquency: Selection and Influence Processes in Early Adolescence (2010, background): “For instance, Burk et al. (2007) found selection as well as influence processes related to delinquency in a study that included adolescents up to the age of 18 years.”
Dynamics of adolescent friendship networks and smoking behavior (2010, background): “Netw. that adolescents highly preferred to reciprocate friendships and to become friends with friends of their friends (Burk et al., 2007; Snijders and Baerveldt, 2003), and to select friends based on gender and alcohol consumption similarities (McPherson et al., 2001; Steglich et al., 2006).”