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...such setting, teens establish a predictable social hierarchy, says Tom Dishion, director of research at the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon, who was not involved with the study. The kids who have behaved worse than others - committing robbery, for instance, vs. smoking cigarettes - earn the most credibility with their peer group, which encourages further bad behavior. "That story [about robbing someone] has a function of making that kid more interesting. He or she gets a lot of attention. [These kids] become higher in the social hierarchy...
...Past research has also shown that peer exposure can worsen behavior. In a 1995 study conducted by Dishion involving 158 high-risk families in Oregon, researchers compared the impact on teens' behavior of four interventions: parenting groups focused on effective discipline, social-skills-training groups for teens, both the parent- and teen-focused group interventions, or no group treatment at all. Overall, the parent-focused group was most effective, leading to reductions in teen smoking and misbehavior at school. The teen-focused group, by contrast, significantly increased participants' rate of aggressive behavior and smoking; in the combination group, kids showed...
...potential challenger to Apple's own iTunes music player, which iPhone owners use to listen to their downloaded tunes. "Apple has made it clear in the past that iPhone apps should enhance the experience, not compete with its core functionality," says Mark Mulligan, a London-based analyst with Forrester Research...
...Edgar Prince, a wealthy and influential Michigan Republican who helped found the Family Research Council in the late 1980s...
...just how potentially fragile the insurance companies' support really is. "It's like a ball, and when you start pulling on one piece of string, a lot of it unravels," says Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit health-policy research organization...