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Introduction
Welcome to the research guide for Relational Influences. Relationships with peers provide a context for acquiring new social skills and for experimenting with values and social roles in the absence of parental monitoring. Forming positive cliques can create a sense of connectedness and well being. Deviant peer cliques can generate aggressive and delinquent behaviours. (Encyclopedia.com, 2017) This guide explores the influence of relationships for the task of writing a formal essay on its theories and concepts.
Social Thinking
Nature and Nurture of Relationships
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Narvaez, D. (2014, December 14). Kindness in Kids and The Nature-Nurture Debate. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/moral-landscapes/201412/kindness-in-kids-and-the-nature-nurture-debate
Why is it that Charlie was able to consider what Lucy wanted and shared, but Lucy thought only of herself? Was it because of the way the two were raised? Alternatively, was there some kind of genetic factor that made Charlie inherently generous and Lucy naturally greedy? As it turns out, the development of prosocial behavior is a matter of both nature and nurture; genes and parenting (Saturn 2014).
Online Relationships - Study
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Australian Psychological Society. (2010). The social and psychological impact of online social networking. Retrieved from https://www.psychology.org.au/publications/inpsych/2010/december/social
Increasingly, studies are indicating that social networking has a positive impact on social connectedness and wellbeing (Valkenburg & Peter, 2009; Ofcom, 2008). However, negatives are evident (Cross et al., 2009), with much media attention focused on the ‘dangers’ of online social networking such as bullying and inappropriate use of personal information.
Key Terms
Kitty Genovese
Kitty Genovese
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Bystander effect. (2017). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.au.db.plcscotch. wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/bystander-effect/627527#334618.toc
Genovese, returning home late from work, was viciously attacked and sexually assaulted by a man with a knife while walking home to her apartment complex from a nearby parking lot. As reported in the The New York Times, for over half an hour 38 respectable, law-abiding people heard or saw the man attack her three separate times. None of the witnesses called the police during the attack, and only one bystander contacted authorities after Kitty Genovese died.
Peer Cliques
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International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. (2008). Cliques. Retrieved from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/peer-cliques
Friendships can foster important psychological and social growth. During late childhood and early adolescence, friends start to gather in a loose-knit collection of members called a peer group. Within these larger peer groups are smaller, tightly organized peer cliques. Peer cliques consist of a small group of close friends, about three to ten, whose members typically resemble one another in family background, attitudes, and values (Ennett, Bauman, and Kock 1996).