Brett Laursen, Florida Atlantic University (IMAGE)

Florida Atlantic University

Brett Laursen, Florida Atlantic University

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Brett Laursen, Ph.D., co-author of the study and a professor and graduate studies coordinator in the Department of Psychology in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. This study is the first to include both parent characteristics and peer social status in the same model to identify the unique contributions of parents to child friendship stability.

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