PS276 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Nurture Assumption, Iatrogenesis
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According to judith harris : the nurture assumption is wrong, parents do have power" to influence at home. But: peers (and others) influence outside, parents are powerless, peers, reach their greatest importance during adolescence. Anti-social, aggressive youth: gravitate towards each other, socializing impact is negative but psychological/emotional impact is relative. Deviant peer groups: members teach each other how to be better delinquents- deviancy training , groups interventions have iatrogenic (inadvertently negative) impact". Similarity is the primary predictor of liking someone and becoming someone"s friend (byrne, 1971) Proximity or similarity: rather than thinking of proximity as a matter of geographical distance", think of it in terms of. Functional distance": the number of times peoples paths cross, the more times our paths cross with the same person, the greater the opportunity to liken similarities, proximity gives us opportunities to use our criteria of similarity.
