Friendship and Delinquency: Selection and Influence Processes in Early Adolescence

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Network–Behavior Dynamics (2013, background): “, 2013; Light et al., 2013). These models estimate effects on the rate of initiation of behavior. Light et al. (2013) linked exposure to friends who had already begun drinking to the initiation of drinking. They found that peer exposure had a strong effect on initiation of alcohol use and proposed t”
Does Fertility Behavior Spread among Friends? (2014, background): “…and Fowler, 2007; Fowler and Christakis, 2008; or smoking behavior, Mercken et al, 2009, Pollard et al., 2010), and other individual outcomes (e.g. delinquency, Knecht et al., 2010; or sexual behavior, Ali and Dwyer, 2010), showing how these behaviors spread within the network, becoming contagious.”
Social networks (2009, unknown): “Nevertheless, the decision-making process underlying these activations—e.g., how people who are working choose co-workers (Pescosolido, 1992) or how women on methadone choose those who live nearby (El-Bassel et al., 1998)—remains unclear. consider two theoretical perspectives.”