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W. Andrew Collins
Researcher at University of Minnesota
Publications - 108
Citations - 15792
W. Andrew Collins is an academic researcher from University of Minnesota. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Interpersonal relationship. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 108 publications receiving 14988 citations.
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Contemporary research on parenting: The case for nature and nurture.
W. Andrew Collins,Eleanor E. Maccoby,Laurence Steinberg,E. Mavis Hetherington,Marc H. Bornstein +4 more
TL;DR: Current findings on parental influences provide more sophisticated and less deterministic explanations than did earlier theory and research on parenting and indicate that parental influences on child development are neither as unambiguous as earlier researchers suggested nor as insubstantial as current critics claim.
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More than Myth: The Developmental Significance of Romantic Relationships During Adolescence
TL;DR: In this article, five features of romantic relationships (involvement, partner selection, relationship content, quality, and cognitive and emotional processes) are proposed to describe adolescents' relationships and their developmental significance.
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Adolescent Romantic Relationships
TL;DR: The growing evidence that adolescent romantic relationships are significant for individual adjustment and development is characterized, and promising directions for further research are noted.
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The relationship context of human behavior and development.
TL;DR: The authors' thesis is that important advances in psychological knowledge will be achieved from concerted investigation of the relationship context in which most important human behaviors are developed and displayed.
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Reconsidering Changes in Parent-Child Conflict across Adolescence: A Meta-Analysis
TL;DR: The results provide little support for the commonly held view that parent-child conflict rises and then falls across adolescence, although conclusions regarding pubertal change as well as conflict affect are qualified by the limited number of studies available.