Tangent: Hypothesized Mechanism: Influence of Potential Friends Members of the wide network of peers …are more apt to encompass elements of distance and difference, in effect constituting a 'tougher audience' for the developing adolescent…Movement into such relations of contrast requires a developmental 'stretch' that is not as pronounced in the more comfortable world of close friendship –(page 277 Giordano, Peggy C.
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