Forming and maintaining friendships is one of the most important developmental tasks in
adolescence. Supportive and high‐quality friendships have been related to positive …

Friendships form one of the most proximal contexts with a critical role in mental health and
social and psychological development. Yet, the neurobiological basis of this crucial …

An important task for adolescents is to form and maintain friendships. In this three-wave
biannual study, we used a longitudinal neuroscience perspective to examine the dynamics …

Adolescence is an important time for social development during which friendships become
more intimate and complex. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study we …

Involvement with friends carries many advantages for adolescents, including protection from
the detrimental effects of being rejected by peers. However, little is known about the …

Hartup proposed a useful taxonomy that distinguishes between having a friend, the quality
of the relationship, and the characteristics or identity of the friend. This framework has …

Adolescence is a period of growing focus on social interactions and relationships. The peer
context is one of the most significant developmental contexts in this transitional period and …

Friendship pervades the human social landscape. These bonds are so important that
disrupting them leads to health problems, and difficulties forming or maintaining friendships …

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

We tested whether adolescents differ from each other in the structural development of the
social brain and whether individual differences in social brain development predicted …