Adolescent risk taking occursmost oftenwhen teens are in the presence of their peers. An extensive body of prior work has attempted to explain this phenomenon with respect to peer pressure, social conformity, and affiliation with deviant peers. Recent experimental work, however, suggests that peer influences on adolescent decision making may be rooted in an even more basic process by which soci...

The paper studies the effect of transparency among peers on the principal’s cost of providing incentives. Using directed graphs to represent peer information we show that under complementarity the cost of providing incentives is decreasing with the level of transparency within the organization. We also investigate the role of the architecture of the information in boosting incentives. In arguin...

Data mining has been used very frequently to extract hidden information from large databases. This paper suggests a new Peer-to-Peer system that uses decision trees to extract Super-Peers that contain peers that are relevant to a given query. This system is an unstructured P2P system based on an organization of peers around super-peers, connected to Meta-super-peer according to their semantic d...

Title of Document: IS THE INFLUENCE OF UNSUPERVISED TIME WITH PEERS ON DELINQUENCY CONDITIONED BY THE DEVIANCE OF ONE’S PEERS? Erin L. Bauer, M.A., 2006 Directed By: Professor Denise C. Gottfredson, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Drawing on applications of opportunity theory to juvenile delinquency, this study examines the relationship between time expenditure and delinquency. T...