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Christina Grimes

Christina Grimes

Assistant Professor of the Practice Emerita of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
cgrimes@duke.edu
Duke Box 90085, Durham, NC 27708-0085
225 Soc-Psych, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Natural Peer Leaders as Substance Use Prevention Agents: the Teens' Life Choice Project.

Journal Article Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · July 2017 In adolescent social groups, natural peer leaders have been found to engage in more frequent experimentation with substance use and to possess disproportionate power to affect the behavior and social choices of their associated peer followers. In the curre ... Full text Cite

Academic Giftedness and Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence.

Journal Article The gifted child quarterly · April 2011 Adolescence is a period of development particularly vulnerable to the effects of alcohol use, with recent studies underscoring alcohol's effects on adolescent brain development. Despite the alarming rates and consequences of adolescent alcohol use, gifted ... Full text Cite

Social Network Centrality and Leadership Status: Links with Problem Behaviors and Tests of Gender Differences.

Journal Article Merrill-Palmer quarterly (Wayne State University. Press) · January 2009 Seventh-grade students (N = 324) completed social cognitive maps to identify peer groups and peer group leaders, sociometric nominations to describe their peers' behaviors, and questionnaires to assess their own behaviors. Peer group members resembled one ... Full text Cite

Overt and Relational Aggression and Victimization: Multiple Perspectives within the School Setting.

Journal Article Journal of school psychology · October 2007 The current study involved a comprehensive comparative examination of overt and relational aggression and victimization across multiple perspectives in the school setting (peers, teachers, observers in the lunchroom, self-report). Patterns of results invol ... Full text Cite

Girl talk: Gossip, friendship, and sociometric status

Journal Article Merrill Palmer Quarterly · January 1, 2007 This study examined the characteristics of gossip among fourth-grade girls and their close friends. Sixty friendship dyads were videotaped as they engaged in conversation, and their gossip was coded. Analyses revealed gossip to be a dominant feature of the ... Full text Cite

Perceptions of friendship quality and observed behaviors with friends: How do sociometrically rejected, average, and popular girls differ?

Journal Article Merrill Palmer Quarterly · January 1, 2006 This study examined associations between sociometric status and friendship quality using observational and questionnaire data from 139 fourth-grade girls and their friends. Multivariate analyses of covariance (controlling for ethnicity and socioeconomic st ... Full text Cite

A behavioral analysis of girls' aggression and victimization

Chapter · July 1, 2004 "Shedding light on a vital subject that has long been neglected, this authoritative volume will appeal to a broad audience of scholars, professionals, and students in developmental psychology, clinical and school psychology, public policy, ... ... Cite

Intergenerational continuities and their influences on children's social development

Journal Article Social Development · January 1, 1998 The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of the recent efforts by psychologists to explore intergenerational continuities and their influences on children's social development. A primary criterion for inclusion in the review was use ... Full text Cite

Conflict, Social Competence, and Gender: Maternal and Peer Contexts

Journal Article Early Education and Development · January 1, 1995 The current study was designed to address two major purposes. The first goal was to investigate the joint influence of children's sociometric status and sex on their conflict behavior, and the second goal was to explore the similarities and differences in ... Full text Cite

Conflict, social competence, & gender: Maternal and peer contexts

Journal Article Early Education and Development · 1995 Cite