Basking in reflected glory and its limits: Why adolescents hang out with popular peers

Journal of Research on Adolescence

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 942-958

  Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis ^a   Cillessen, Antonius H N ^b,c   Lindenberg, Siegwart ^a   Veenstra, René ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

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EID: 78449283180     PISSN: 10508392     EISSN: 15327795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2010.00671.x     Document Type: Article

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