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  1. As applied to peer contagion, the deviancy training process is characterized by give-and-take exchanges between friends that promote deviant actions (e.g., past stories of deviant acts, suggestions for future behavior, what ifs) and elicit positive responses, such as laughter.

    • Thomas J. Dishion, Jessica M. Tipsord
    • 10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.100412
    • 2011
    • 2011
  2. Approved: -- f DVho~s J. Dishion. Peer influences on adolescence substance use have been widely demonstrated. In. centered around and reinforcing of. values, known as deviant peer contagion, are predictive of a variety of antisocial. ever, . with resilience to peer contagion.

  3. We tested a SEM in which, controlling for sex, race, SES, and intelligence, between-individual variability in adolescent delinquency was simultaneously accounted for by adolescent perceptions of deviant peer behavior, inhibitory control, planning, and decision making, as well as potential interactions between adolescent perceptions of deviant ...

    • J. Benjamin Hinnant, Alissa B. Forman‐Alberti
    • 10.1111/jora.12405
    • 2019
    • 2019/09
  4. aggregation into deviant peer groups such as gangs may provide marginalized youth with increased access to early sexual partners. Supporting the social augmentation hypothesis, this longitudinal analysis suggests significant long-term costs to youth rejected by prosocial peers despite some immediate benefits of deviant peer affiliation ...

    • Coercion
    • Deviancy Training
    • Application to Couple and Family Therapy

    Coercion is a bi-directional process through which behaviors are negatively reinforced (i.e., strengthened by stopping, removing, or otherwise avoiding an unpleasant outcome). This often involves one individual using an aversive or unpleasant behavior to influence the behavior of another individual. Successful use of coercion to achieve a desired o...

    Deviancy training is also a bi-directional process of influence. But in contrast to coercion, this type of training positively reinforces (i.e., addition of a pleasant or desirable response following a behavior) deviancy. It occurs when peers positively reinforce deviant behaviors such as conversations about breaking rules, defiance of authority, o...

    Deviant behaviors become a source of concern for parents when they disrupt family life and lead to disciplinary action at school and involvement with either the juvenile or adult justice systems. Individual therapy (IT) may help youth learn more effective communication skills and coping strategies, but the entire family can benefit from addressing ...

  5. Deviant behavior seems to be contagious, spreading rapidly among adolescents when they associate with other deviant youth, especially in early adolescence. Public policy continues to put deviant peers together, however, despite of increasing evidence that doing so contributes to the growth of antisocial behavior among adolescents.

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  7. Jul 1, 2005 · This set of nine innovative papers moves the field forward on three fronts: (1) Broadening the empirical basis for understanding the conditions under which peer contagion is more or less likely...

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