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Status Struggles: Network Centrality and Gender Segregation in Same- and Cross-Gender Aggression
Robert Faris,Diane Felmlee +1 more
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Literature on aggression often suggests that individual deficiencies, such as social incompetence, psychological difficulties, or troublesome home environments, are responsible for aggressive behavior as mentioned in this paper, which is not the case.Abstract:
Literature on aggression often suggests that individual deficiencies, such as social incompetence, psychological difficulties, or troublesome home environments, are responsible for aggressive behav...read more
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Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed
David S. Yeager,Carol S. Dweck +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that students who believe that intellectual abilities are qualities that can be developed (as opposed to qualities that are fixed) tend to show higher achievement across challenging school transitions and greater course completion rates in challenging math courses.
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The Latino threat: constructing immigrants, citizens, and the nation : Leo R. Chavez, Stanford University Press 2008. 272 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0804759342 ()
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The evolutionary basis of risky adolescent behavior: Implications for science, policy, and practice
Bruce J. Ellis,Marco Del Giudice,Thomas J. Dishion,Aurelio José Figueredo,Peter Gray,Vladas Griskevicius,Patricia H. Hawley,W. Jake Jacobs,Jenée James,Anthony A. Volk,David Wilson +10 more
TL;DR: The evolutionary model contends that understanding the evolutionary functions of adolescence is critical to explaining why adolescents engage in risky behavior and that successful intervention depends on working with, instead of against, adolescent goals and motivations.
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The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens
TL;DR: Benhabib argues that the central principles that shape our thinking about political membership and state sovereignty are in tension, if not outright contradiction, with one another as mentioned in this paper, and argues for an internal reconstruction of both, underscoring the significance of membership in bounded communities, while at the same time promoting the cultivation of democratic loyalties that exceed the national state, supporting political participation on the part of citizens and noncitizen residents alike.
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Changing climates of conflict: A social network experiment in 56 schools
TL;DR: It is shown that it is possible to reduce conflict with a student-driven intervention, and the power of peer influence for changing climates of conflict is demonstrated, and which students to involve in those efforts is suggested.
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Structure, action, and outcomes: the dynamics of power in social exchange*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how structure and action affect the amount and distribution of exchange in power/dependence relations, and show that structural power has stronger effects on reward exchange, and strategic action on punishment exchange.
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From indirect aggression to invisible aggression : A conceptual view on bullying and peer group manipulation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that bullying occurs in the encounter between a skillful bully and a group that lacks true cohesiveness, through a process of normative social influence.
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Correlates of Bullying and Victimization among Intermediate Students in the Midwestern USA
Karen A. Berthold,John H. Hoover +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between bullying and risk behaviors among 591 fourth-through sixth-grade students in a mid-sized Midwestern (USA) town and found that bullies' peers pressured them to emit high-risk behaviors such as smoking and drinking.
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Dynamics of adolescent friendship networks and smoking behavior
TL;DR: It is suggested that selection as well as influence processes play an important role in adolescent smoking behavior, particularly when selecting non-reciprocal friends.
Undocumented Immigrants: Facts and Figures
TL;DR: This paper estimated that there are 9.3 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, of which about 6 million are working and another 3 million children with undocumented parents are U.S.-born citizens.