Additional Weblinks

Below are additional weblinks relevant to this chapter's topics:

Peer Relations
Explore peer acceptance and teachers' and parents' roles in children's peer relations.

• http://searcheric.org/scripts/seget2.asp?want=http://searcheric.org/ericdb/ED345866.htm

Aggressive Boys, Friendships, and Adjustment
A prevention program designed to reduce externalizing problems and prevent delinquency. Includes the impact of the program on friends' behavioural characteristics.

• http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org

Reducing Bullying
Strategies for reducing bullying.

• http://www.ncpc.org/ncpc/ncpc/?pa=resCenter&sa=searchResults&topicId=14

Social Cognition
An excellent website for learning more about many aspects of social cognition. Includes abstracts of papers, links to information about researchers, and other websites about social cognition.

• http://www.psych.purdue.edu/~esmith/scarch.html

Play
Examine different types of play, the adult's role in children's play, and other play topics.

• http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/nature.of.childs.play.html

Friendships
A leading expert on children's friendships, Willard Hartup, examines the factors involved in making and keeping friends, as well as friendships in school settings.

• http://ericps.crc.uiuc.edu/eece/pubs/digests/1992/hartup92.html

Adolescent Peer Relationships
Explore many aspects of adolescent peer relationships, including cliques and crowds, parental/peer influences, peer pressure, peer statuses, and other topics.

• http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/n/x/nxd10/peers2.htm

Peer Conflicts
An ERIC Digest paper on peer conflicts in the classroom, including ideas about the structure of peer conflicts.

• http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed372874.html

Teen Chat
Examine what adolescents have to say about dating, romance, and love.

• http://www.chatspot.net/TeenChat/