My research examines friendship processes in childhood and adolescence. I am especially interested in examining the benefits of friendship participation and the adjustment outcomes related to a lack of friend alternatives and friendship dissolution. 

Classroom seat proximity in friendship processes
In a recent paper, we found that primary school students were more likely to be friends with near-seated classmates. Among those who were not friends, we found that those who moved to closer seats were more likely to become friends than those seated further away. Building on this, I am currently working on a project which aims to determine whether the forms of friendship processes that promote similarity between friends differ between friends seated closer together and those seated further apart.

Indicators of Susceptibility to Peer Influence
In a recently coauthored review paper, we summarize conceptual models that ascribe susceptibility to state-like or trait-like attributes of the recipient of influence.  Building on this, I am interested in distinguishing being susceptible from being influential.