Highly readable and comprehensive, this volume explores the significance of friendship for social, emotional, and cognitive development from early childhood thr

A major study on childhood and adolescent friendships.

Friendships are crucial to children's well-being and happiness and lay important foundations upon which later relationships in adolescence and adulthood are bui

How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "exper

A neglected topic in the field of personal relationships has been the study of friendships. Social psychologists have studied how and why individuals are attrac