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Social and Behavioral Sciences

University at Albany, State University of New York

2009

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Modeling Peer Influence And Peer Selection As Processes, Bob Edward Vasquez Jan 2009

Modeling Peer Influence And Peer Selection As Processes, Bob Edward Vasquez

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Behavioral scientists are aware of the strong and persistent correlation between peer and individual behavior. Evidence suggests selection and socialization effects explain the correlation, but the processes, or the details of the ways in which these effects operate in an empirical model, remain relatively unexamined.